By Pastor Shodankeh Johnson INTRODUCTION THE PRESENT SCENARIO Encountering the World of Islam 1/5 of humanity bows to Islam’s Allah 20% of the world are Muslims 60%
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Slide 1
By
Pastor Shodankeh Johnson
INTRODUCTION
THE PRESENT SCENARIO
Encountering the World of Islam
1/5 of humanity bows to Islam’s Allah
20% of the world are Muslims
60% of the worlds poor are Muslim
80% of the world’s refugees are Muslim
GO TO
MATTHEW 28:16-20
People
who hate you
People who will want to kill you
Those we love and fear
People who don’t love you
People who are different from you
Go refers to change of heart rather than
just moving
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT CHURCH PLANTING
You will not find “Church Planting Movements”
mentioned anywhere in the Bible. Yet, the first
century world was swirling with new converts and
multiplying indigenous churches planting
churches which are Church Planting Movements.
Let’s take a look at the characteristics of Church
Planting Movements and see what the Bible has
to say about them.
Abundant Gospel Sowing
2 Corinthians 9:6
“…whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
1 Thessalonians 1:8
“The Lord’s message rang out from you…”
All Peoples Will Be Reached
Psalms 67 “Let all the peoples praise you.”
Matthew 24:3, 14 “…and this gospel shall be preached to all
peoples.”
Revelation 5:9 “..you purchased men for God from every tribe…”
Revelation 7:9 “…a multitude that no one could count, from every
nation…”
Revelation 15:4 “All nations will come and worship before you.”
Psalm 96 “Ascribe to the Lord, O families of nations…”
God Will Do It
Philippians 1:6 “He who began…will do it.”
1 Peter 4:11 “…do it with the strength God provides.”
God’s Word
Acts 17:11 “…examined the Scriptures every day to see if…”
HOUSE CHURCHES
Acts 5:42 “…from house to house…”
Acts 8:3 “Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to
house…”
Acts 12:12 “…the house of Mary…where many people had
gathered…”
Romans 16:5 “Greet also the church that meets at their house.”
1 Corinthians 16:19 “…the church that meets at their house.”
Colossians 4:15 “…the church in her house.”
Philemon 2 “…the church that meets in your home.”
Lay Leadership
Psalm 119:97-100 “I have more insight than my teachers…for I obey…”
Jeremiah 1:7 “Do not say, ‘I am only a child…’”
Luke 8:39 “…so the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus…”
Acts 4:13 “…they were unschooled, ordinary men.”
1 Corinthians 1:26 “…not many were wise by human standards…”
2 Corinthians 3:4-5 “Not that we are competent in ourselves…”
1 Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young.”
1 Peter 2:9-10 “…you are a royal priesthood…”
1 Peter 4:10-11 “Each one should use whatever gift he has…”
Indigenous Leadership
2
Model, Equip, Watch & Leave
Timothy 2:2 “…entrust to reliable men…”
Titus
1:5 “…appoint elders in every town…
Multiple Church Leaders
1 Corinthians 12:7 “Now to each one…the Spirit is given for the common
good.
1 Corinthians 14:26 “…everyone has a hymn, or a word…a revelation…’”
Ephesians 4:11-16 “…some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some…”
Oikos Evangelism
- Community Implications to Evangelism
Acts 16:15 “…she and the members of her household were baptized.”
Acts 16:31 “…you will be saved—you and your household.”
Paradigm Shift
Habakkuk 1:5 “…you would not believe even if you were
told.”
Matt. 9:17 “…new wineskins”
Romans 12:1 “Be not conformed to this world…”
Jonah 1-4 -The reluctant missionary
Persecution and Suffering
Matthew 10:17-25 “A student is not above his teacher.”
2 Corinthians 11:23-29 “I have known hunger and thirst.”
1 Peter 4:12-13 “Do not be surprised [that] you are
suffering.”
Revelation 6:9-11 “How long [until] you avenge our blood?”
Revelation 12:10-12 “He is filled with fury, he knows his
time
is short.”
PRAYER
Psalms 2:8 “…ask of me and I will give you the ends of
the earth.”
Luke 5:16 “…Jesus often went off to a lonely place and
prayed.”
Luke 6:12 “…Jesus…spent the night praying to God…”
RAPID SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL
Acts 2:47 “…the Lord added to their number daily
those…being saved.”
Acts 19:20 “In this way the word of the Lord spread widely
and grew in power.”
Rapid Assimilation of New Believers
Acts 2:41 “Those who accepted his message were
baptized…that day.”
Acts8:26-39 “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”
Acts 16:5 “…the churches…grew daily in numbers.”
Acts 18:5 “…grew daily in numbers.”
Remove Obstacles
Luke 3:4-6 “…make straight the way of the Lord…”
The Man of Peace, Opening New Work
Luke 10:1-18 …when you enter a town…”
Unreached People Groups
Matthew 18:12-13 - Parable of the Lost Sheep
Romans 15:20-23 “…my ambition to preach where Christ
was
not known”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
1. Start with prayer – know the mind of God and join Him in His
work
2. Everything is grounded in Scripture
3. Focus is on households, not individuals
4. Make Disciples, not converts
5. Teach obedience-based discipleship, not knowledge-based
6. Plan your work and work your plan – be intentional in
Evangelism and Church Planting
CRITICAL ELEMENT
7. Start with the Man of Peace or an existing relationship that will
permit a Discovery Bible Study or Witness
8. Form new believers into minimum practice groups that will
become churches
9. Develop a group DNA of urgent obedience that will reach out
to “ALL”
10. Develop a group DNA of rapidly reproducing disciples,
leaders, groups and churches
11. Training is done “On the Job”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
12. Keep all things reproducible by local leaders
13. Use unpaid local leaders to start new groups
14. Authority of Scripture and the Holy Spirit are all that is needed
to start
15. Do not require cultural suicide
16. Persecution is part of being a Christian
17. Discipleship and Training are continuous and primarily done
through mentoring
18. Model, Equip, Watch, and Leave
COUNTER INTUITIVE
1. Go slow at first to go fast later… focus on few to win may
2. Stay only where Jesus has prepared someone’s heart to hear
and obey
3. Do not focus on personal evangelism… focus on evangelizing
the whole community through families
4. Start with creation not Christ
5. Disciple people to conversion… not vice versa
6. A novice insider will produce more fruit than a highly trained
outsider
COUNTER INTUITIVE
7. Prepare to spend a long time making strong disciples, but
anticipate miracle accelerations
8. The best time for a church to plant a new church is when it is
brand new
9. Focus on discipling ordinary people not developing
”Professional” Christians
10. Expect the hardest places to yield the greatest result
11. Small for-profit project often yield much higher long term
access to resistant areas than free services
9. Train,
Coach,
Mentor,
watch and
Leave
1. Identify
Community
2. Pray for
Community
8. Identify
Natural Local
Leader(S)
Baptize, believing
families, Plant a
Church
3. Do
Community
Profile
/People group
7. Share Testimony &
Stories.
Start Discovery Bible
study
6. Create
Relationship
Through
service
4. Send Spies
5. Identify
Person/
Family of
Peace
CHURCH GROWTH TYPES
People are inspired
and saved
Elephant Type Church
•Big
• Lots of Programs
• Holy Atmosphere (“church-like”)
・Stained glass
・Choir
・Good preaching
Slow to Multiply
•Fertile four time a year
•One baby per pregnancy (22 month gestation period)
•Sexual Maturity … 18 Years
Indispensable
Need to grow
One Pair of Elephants
One Pair of Elephants
…The family grows from 2 to 3
Each
5,500 kg
Total
16,500 kg
Rabbit Type Church
•Small Group Oriented
•Scripture is Primary Source of all Teaching
Rabbits are small,
Multiply Rapidly
Rabbits
• Practically continuously fertile
• Average of 7 babies per pregnancy
(1 month gestation period)
• Sexual Maturity… 4 months
… 3 years… Two Rabbits
In
become…
Each
1 kg
Total
476,000,000
kg
476 Million
SPECK
S – Is there a Sin to avoid or confess?
P – Is there a promise, a prayer, or praise in this
passage?
E – Is there an example to follow (or not follow)?
C – Is there a command to obey?
K – Is there knowledge that I need to retain?
What are we going to do with what we have learned
TODAY?
Text
John 3:16-17
What do you
understand?
How can you
Obey?
How can you
teach others to
Obey?
John 3:16 -17
"For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world
through him.
Slide 2
By
Pastor Shodankeh Johnson
INTRODUCTION
THE PRESENT SCENARIO
Encountering the World of Islam
1/5 of humanity bows to Islam’s Allah
20% of the world are Muslims
60% of the worlds poor are Muslim
80% of the world’s refugees are Muslim
GO TO
MATTHEW 28:16-20
People
who hate you
People who will want to kill you
Those we love and fear
People who don’t love you
People who are different from you
Go refers to change of heart rather than
just moving
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT CHURCH PLANTING
You will not find “Church Planting Movements”
mentioned anywhere in the Bible. Yet, the first
century world was swirling with new converts and
multiplying indigenous churches planting
churches which are Church Planting Movements.
Let’s take a look at the characteristics of Church
Planting Movements and see what the Bible has
to say about them.
Abundant Gospel Sowing
2 Corinthians 9:6
“…whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
1 Thessalonians 1:8
“The Lord’s message rang out from you…”
All Peoples Will Be Reached
Psalms 67 “Let all the peoples praise you.”
Matthew 24:3, 14 “…and this gospel shall be preached to all
peoples.”
Revelation 5:9 “..you purchased men for God from every tribe…”
Revelation 7:9 “…a multitude that no one could count, from every
nation…”
Revelation 15:4 “All nations will come and worship before you.”
Psalm 96 “Ascribe to the Lord, O families of nations…”
God Will Do It
Philippians 1:6 “He who began…will do it.”
1 Peter 4:11 “…do it with the strength God provides.”
God’s Word
Acts 17:11 “…examined the Scriptures every day to see if…”
HOUSE CHURCHES
Acts 5:42 “…from house to house…”
Acts 8:3 “Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to
house…”
Acts 12:12 “…the house of Mary…where many people had
gathered…”
Romans 16:5 “Greet also the church that meets at their house.”
1 Corinthians 16:19 “…the church that meets at their house.”
Colossians 4:15 “…the church in her house.”
Philemon 2 “…the church that meets in your home.”
Lay Leadership
Psalm 119:97-100 “I have more insight than my teachers…for I obey…”
Jeremiah 1:7 “Do not say, ‘I am only a child…’”
Luke 8:39 “…so the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus…”
Acts 4:13 “…they were unschooled, ordinary men.”
1 Corinthians 1:26 “…not many were wise by human standards…”
2 Corinthians 3:4-5 “Not that we are competent in ourselves…”
1 Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young.”
1 Peter 2:9-10 “…you are a royal priesthood…”
1 Peter 4:10-11 “Each one should use whatever gift he has…”
Indigenous Leadership
2
Model, Equip, Watch & Leave
Timothy 2:2 “…entrust to reliable men…”
Titus
1:5 “…appoint elders in every town…
Multiple Church Leaders
1 Corinthians 12:7 “Now to each one…the Spirit is given for the common
good.
1 Corinthians 14:26 “…everyone has a hymn, or a word…a revelation…’”
Ephesians 4:11-16 “…some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some…”
Oikos Evangelism
- Community Implications to Evangelism
Acts 16:15 “…she and the members of her household were baptized.”
Acts 16:31 “…you will be saved—you and your household.”
Paradigm Shift
Habakkuk 1:5 “…you would not believe even if you were
told.”
Matt. 9:17 “…new wineskins”
Romans 12:1 “Be not conformed to this world…”
Jonah 1-4 -The reluctant missionary
Persecution and Suffering
Matthew 10:17-25 “A student is not above his teacher.”
2 Corinthians 11:23-29 “I have known hunger and thirst.”
1 Peter 4:12-13 “Do not be surprised [that] you are
suffering.”
Revelation 6:9-11 “How long [until] you avenge our blood?”
Revelation 12:10-12 “He is filled with fury, he knows his
time
is short.”
PRAYER
Psalms 2:8 “…ask of me and I will give you the ends of
the earth.”
Luke 5:16 “…Jesus often went off to a lonely place and
prayed.”
Luke 6:12 “…Jesus…spent the night praying to God…”
RAPID SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL
Acts 2:47 “…the Lord added to their number daily
those…being saved.”
Acts 19:20 “In this way the word of the Lord spread widely
and grew in power.”
Rapid Assimilation of New Believers
Acts 2:41 “Those who accepted his message were
baptized…that day.”
Acts8:26-39 “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”
Acts 16:5 “…the churches…grew daily in numbers.”
Acts 18:5 “…grew daily in numbers.”
Remove Obstacles
Luke 3:4-6 “…make straight the way of the Lord…”
The Man of Peace, Opening New Work
Luke 10:1-18 …when you enter a town…”
Unreached People Groups
Matthew 18:12-13 - Parable of the Lost Sheep
Romans 15:20-23 “…my ambition to preach where Christ
was
not known”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
1. Start with prayer – know the mind of God and join Him in His
work
2. Everything is grounded in Scripture
3. Focus is on households, not individuals
4. Make Disciples, not converts
5. Teach obedience-based discipleship, not knowledge-based
6. Plan your work and work your plan – be intentional in
Evangelism and Church Planting
CRITICAL ELEMENT
7. Start with the Man of Peace or an existing relationship that will
permit a Discovery Bible Study or Witness
8. Form new believers into minimum practice groups that will
become churches
9. Develop a group DNA of urgent obedience that will reach out
to “ALL”
10. Develop a group DNA of rapidly reproducing disciples,
leaders, groups and churches
11. Training is done “On the Job”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
12. Keep all things reproducible by local leaders
13. Use unpaid local leaders to start new groups
14. Authority of Scripture and the Holy Spirit are all that is needed
to start
15. Do not require cultural suicide
16. Persecution is part of being a Christian
17. Discipleship and Training are continuous and primarily done
through mentoring
18. Model, Equip, Watch, and Leave
COUNTER INTUITIVE
1. Go slow at first to go fast later… focus on few to win may
2. Stay only where Jesus has prepared someone’s heart to hear
and obey
3. Do not focus on personal evangelism… focus on evangelizing
the whole community through families
4. Start with creation not Christ
5. Disciple people to conversion… not vice versa
6. A novice insider will produce more fruit than a highly trained
outsider
COUNTER INTUITIVE
7. Prepare to spend a long time making strong disciples, but
anticipate miracle accelerations
8. The best time for a church to plant a new church is when it is
brand new
9. Focus on discipling ordinary people not developing
”Professional” Christians
10. Expect the hardest places to yield the greatest result
11. Small for-profit project often yield much higher long term
access to resistant areas than free services
9. Train,
Coach,
Mentor,
watch and
Leave
1. Identify
Community
2. Pray for
Community
8. Identify
Natural Local
Leader(S)
Baptize, believing
families, Plant a
Church
3. Do
Community
Profile
/People group
7. Share Testimony &
Stories.
Start Discovery Bible
study
6. Create
Relationship
Through
service
4. Send Spies
5. Identify
Person/
Family of
Peace
CHURCH GROWTH TYPES
People are inspired
and saved
Elephant Type Church
•Big
• Lots of Programs
• Holy Atmosphere (“church-like”)
・Stained glass
・Choir
・Good preaching
Slow to Multiply
•Fertile four time a year
•One baby per pregnancy (22 month gestation period)
•Sexual Maturity … 18 Years
Indispensable
Need to grow
One Pair of Elephants
One Pair of Elephants
…The family grows from 2 to 3
Each
5,500 kg
Total
16,500 kg
Rabbit Type Church
•Small Group Oriented
•Scripture is Primary Source of all Teaching
Rabbits are small,
Multiply Rapidly
Rabbits
• Practically continuously fertile
• Average of 7 babies per pregnancy
(1 month gestation period)
• Sexual Maturity… 4 months
… 3 years… Two Rabbits
In
become…
Each
1 kg
Total
476,000,000
kg
476 Million
SPECK
S – Is there a Sin to avoid or confess?
P – Is there a promise, a prayer, or praise in this
passage?
E – Is there an example to follow (or not follow)?
C – Is there a command to obey?
K – Is there knowledge that I need to retain?
What are we going to do with what we have learned
TODAY?
Text
John 3:16-17
What do you
understand?
How can you
Obey?
How can you
teach others to
Obey?
John 3:16 -17
"For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world
through him.
Slide 3
By
Pastor Shodankeh Johnson
INTRODUCTION
THE PRESENT SCENARIO
Encountering the World of Islam
1/5 of humanity bows to Islam’s Allah
20% of the world are Muslims
60% of the worlds poor are Muslim
80% of the world’s refugees are Muslim
GO TO
MATTHEW 28:16-20
People
who hate you
People who will want to kill you
Those we love and fear
People who don’t love you
People who are different from you
Go refers to change of heart rather than
just moving
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT CHURCH PLANTING
You will not find “Church Planting Movements”
mentioned anywhere in the Bible. Yet, the first
century world was swirling with new converts and
multiplying indigenous churches planting
churches which are Church Planting Movements.
Let’s take a look at the characteristics of Church
Planting Movements and see what the Bible has
to say about them.
Abundant Gospel Sowing
2 Corinthians 9:6
“…whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
1 Thessalonians 1:8
“The Lord’s message rang out from you…”
All Peoples Will Be Reached
Psalms 67 “Let all the peoples praise you.”
Matthew 24:3, 14 “…and this gospel shall be preached to all
peoples.”
Revelation 5:9 “..you purchased men for God from every tribe…”
Revelation 7:9 “…a multitude that no one could count, from every
nation…”
Revelation 15:4 “All nations will come and worship before you.”
Psalm 96 “Ascribe to the Lord, O families of nations…”
God Will Do It
Philippians 1:6 “He who began…will do it.”
1 Peter 4:11 “…do it with the strength God provides.”
God’s Word
Acts 17:11 “…examined the Scriptures every day to see if…”
HOUSE CHURCHES
Acts 5:42 “…from house to house…”
Acts 8:3 “Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to
house…”
Acts 12:12 “…the house of Mary…where many people had
gathered…”
Romans 16:5 “Greet also the church that meets at their house.”
1 Corinthians 16:19 “…the church that meets at their house.”
Colossians 4:15 “…the church in her house.”
Philemon 2 “…the church that meets in your home.”
Lay Leadership
Psalm 119:97-100 “I have more insight than my teachers…for I obey…”
Jeremiah 1:7 “Do not say, ‘I am only a child…’”
Luke 8:39 “…so the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus…”
Acts 4:13 “…they were unschooled, ordinary men.”
1 Corinthians 1:26 “…not many were wise by human standards…”
2 Corinthians 3:4-5 “Not that we are competent in ourselves…”
1 Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young.”
1 Peter 2:9-10 “…you are a royal priesthood…”
1 Peter 4:10-11 “Each one should use whatever gift he has…”
Indigenous Leadership
2
Model, Equip, Watch & Leave
Timothy 2:2 “…entrust to reliable men…”
Titus
1:5 “…appoint elders in every town…
Multiple Church Leaders
1 Corinthians 12:7 “Now to each one…the Spirit is given for the common
good.
1 Corinthians 14:26 “…everyone has a hymn, or a word…a revelation…’”
Ephesians 4:11-16 “…some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some…”
Oikos Evangelism
- Community Implications to Evangelism
Acts 16:15 “…she and the members of her household were baptized.”
Acts 16:31 “…you will be saved—you and your household.”
Paradigm Shift
Habakkuk 1:5 “…you would not believe even if you were
told.”
Matt. 9:17 “…new wineskins”
Romans 12:1 “Be not conformed to this world…”
Jonah 1-4 -The reluctant missionary
Persecution and Suffering
Matthew 10:17-25 “A student is not above his teacher.”
2 Corinthians 11:23-29 “I have known hunger and thirst.”
1 Peter 4:12-13 “Do not be surprised [that] you are
suffering.”
Revelation 6:9-11 “How long [until] you avenge our blood?”
Revelation 12:10-12 “He is filled with fury, he knows his
time
is short.”
PRAYER
Psalms 2:8 “…ask of me and I will give you the ends of
the earth.”
Luke 5:16 “…Jesus often went off to a lonely place and
prayed.”
Luke 6:12 “…Jesus…spent the night praying to God…”
RAPID SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL
Acts 2:47 “…the Lord added to their number daily
those…being saved.”
Acts 19:20 “In this way the word of the Lord spread widely
and grew in power.”
Rapid Assimilation of New Believers
Acts 2:41 “Those who accepted his message were
baptized…that day.”
Acts8:26-39 “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”
Acts 16:5 “…the churches…grew daily in numbers.”
Acts 18:5 “…grew daily in numbers.”
Remove Obstacles
Luke 3:4-6 “…make straight the way of the Lord…”
The Man of Peace, Opening New Work
Luke 10:1-18 …when you enter a town…”
Unreached People Groups
Matthew 18:12-13 - Parable of the Lost Sheep
Romans 15:20-23 “…my ambition to preach where Christ
was
not known”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
1. Start with prayer – know the mind of God and join Him in His
work
2. Everything is grounded in Scripture
3. Focus is on households, not individuals
4. Make Disciples, not converts
5. Teach obedience-based discipleship, not knowledge-based
6. Plan your work and work your plan – be intentional in
Evangelism and Church Planting
CRITICAL ELEMENT
7. Start with the Man of Peace or an existing relationship that will
permit a Discovery Bible Study or Witness
8. Form new believers into minimum practice groups that will
become churches
9. Develop a group DNA of urgent obedience that will reach out
to “ALL”
10. Develop a group DNA of rapidly reproducing disciples,
leaders, groups and churches
11. Training is done “On the Job”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
12. Keep all things reproducible by local leaders
13. Use unpaid local leaders to start new groups
14. Authority of Scripture and the Holy Spirit are all that is needed
to start
15. Do not require cultural suicide
16. Persecution is part of being a Christian
17. Discipleship and Training are continuous and primarily done
through mentoring
18. Model, Equip, Watch, and Leave
COUNTER INTUITIVE
1. Go slow at first to go fast later… focus on few to win may
2. Stay only where Jesus has prepared someone’s heart to hear
and obey
3. Do not focus on personal evangelism… focus on evangelizing
the whole community through families
4. Start with creation not Christ
5. Disciple people to conversion… not vice versa
6. A novice insider will produce more fruit than a highly trained
outsider
COUNTER INTUITIVE
7. Prepare to spend a long time making strong disciples, but
anticipate miracle accelerations
8. The best time for a church to plant a new church is when it is
brand new
9. Focus on discipling ordinary people not developing
”Professional” Christians
10. Expect the hardest places to yield the greatest result
11. Small for-profit project often yield much higher long term
access to resistant areas than free services
9. Train,
Coach,
Mentor,
watch and
Leave
1. Identify
Community
2. Pray for
Community
8. Identify
Natural Local
Leader(S)
Baptize, believing
families, Plant a
Church
3. Do
Community
Profile
/People group
7. Share Testimony &
Stories.
Start Discovery Bible
study
6. Create
Relationship
Through
service
4. Send Spies
5. Identify
Person/
Family of
Peace
CHURCH GROWTH TYPES
People are inspired
and saved
Elephant Type Church
•Big
• Lots of Programs
• Holy Atmosphere (“church-like”)
・Stained glass
・Choir
・Good preaching
Slow to Multiply
•Fertile four time a year
•One baby per pregnancy (22 month gestation period)
•Sexual Maturity … 18 Years
Indispensable
Need to grow
One Pair of Elephants
One Pair of Elephants
…The family grows from 2 to 3
Each
5,500 kg
Total
16,500 kg
Rabbit Type Church
•Small Group Oriented
•Scripture is Primary Source of all Teaching
Rabbits are small,
Multiply Rapidly
Rabbits
• Practically continuously fertile
• Average of 7 babies per pregnancy
(1 month gestation period)
• Sexual Maturity… 4 months
… 3 years… Two Rabbits
In
become…
Each
1 kg
Total
476,000,000
kg
476 Million
SPECK
S – Is there a Sin to avoid or confess?
P – Is there a promise, a prayer, or praise in this
passage?
E – Is there an example to follow (or not follow)?
C – Is there a command to obey?
K – Is there knowledge that I need to retain?
What are we going to do with what we have learned
TODAY?
Text
John 3:16-17
What do you
understand?
How can you
Obey?
How can you
teach others to
Obey?
John 3:16 -17
"For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world
through him.
Slide 4
By
Pastor Shodankeh Johnson
INTRODUCTION
THE PRESENT SCENARIO
Encountering the World of Islam
1/5 of humanity bows to Islam’s Allah
20% of the world are Muslims
60% of the worlds poor are Muslim
80% of the world’s refugees are Muslim
GO TO
MATTHEW 28:16-20
People
who hate you
People who will want to kill you
Those we love and fear
People who don’t love you
People who are different from you
Go refers to change of heart rather than
just moving
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT CHURCH PLANTING
You will not find “Church Planting Movements”
mentioned anywhere in the Bible. Yet, the first
century world was swirling with new converts and
multiplying indigenous churches planting
churches which are Church Planting Movements.
Let’s take a look at the characteristics of Church
Planting Movements and see what the Bible has
to say about them.
Abundant Gospel Sowing
2 Corinthians 9:6
“…whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
1 Thessalonians 1:8
“The Lord’s message rang out from you…”
All Peoples Will Be Reached
Psalms 67 “Let all the peoples praise you.”
Matthew 24:3, 14 “…and this gospel shall be preached to all
peoples.”
Revelation 5:9 “..you purchased men for God from every tribe…”
Revelation 7:9 “…a multitude that no one could count, from every
nation…”
Revelation 15:4 “All nations will come and worship before you.”
Psalm 96 “Ascribe to the Lord, O families of nations…”
God Will Do It
Philippians 1:6 “He who began…will do it.”
1 Peter 4:11 “…do it with the strength God provides.”
God’s Word
Acts 17:11 “…examined the Scriptures every day to see if…”
HOUSE CHURCHES
Acts 5:42 “…from house to house…”
Acts 8:3 “Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to
house…”
Acts 12:12 “…the house of Mary…where many people had
gathered…”
Romans 16:5 “Greet also the church that meets at their house.”
1 Corinthians 16:19 “…the church that meets at their house.”
Colossians 4:15 “…the church in her house.”
Philemon 2 “…the church that meets in your home.”
Lay Leadership
Psalm 119:97-100 “I have more insight than my teachers…for I obey…”
Jeremiah 1:7 “Do not say, ‘I am only a child…’”
Luke 8:39 “…so the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus…”
Acts 4:13 “…they were unschooled, ordinary men.”
1 Corinthians 1:26 “…not many were wise by human standards…”
2 Corinthians 3:4-5 “Not that we are competent in ourselves…”
1 Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young.”
1 Peter 2:9-10 “…you are a royal priesthood…”
1 Peter 4:10-11 “Each one should use whatever gift he has…”
Indigenous Leadership
2
Model, Equip, Watch & Leave
Timothy 2:2 “…entrust to reliable men…”
Titus
1:5 “…appoint elders in every town…
Multiple Church Leaders
1 Corinthians 12:7 “Now to each one…the Spirit is given for the common
good.
1 Corinthians 14:26 “…everyone has a hymn, or a word…a revelation…’”
Ephesians 4:11-16 “…some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some…”
Oikos Evangelism
- Community Implications to Evangelism
Acts 16:15 “…she and the members of her household were baptized.”
Acts 16:31 “…you will be saved—you and your household.”
Paradigm Shift
Habakkuk 1:5 “…you would not believe even if you were
told.”
Matt. 9:17 “…new wineskins”
Romans 12:1 “Be not conformed to this world…”
Jonah 1-4 -The reluctant missionary
Persecution and Suffering
Matthew 10:17-25 “A student is not above his teacher.”
2 Corinthians 11:23-29 “I have known hunger and thirst.”
1 Peter 4:12-13 “Do not be surprised [that] you are
suffering.”
Revelation 6:9-11 “How long [until] you avenge our blood?”
Revelation 12:10-12 “He is filled with fury, he knows his
time
is short.”
PRAYER
Psalms 2:8 “…ask of me and I will give you the ends of
the earth.”
Luke 5:16 “…Jesus often went off to a lonely place and
prayed.”
Luke 6:12 “…Jesus…spent the night praying to God…”
RAPID SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL
Acts 2:47 “…the Lord added to their number daily
those…being saved.”
Acts 19:20 “In this way the word of the Lord spread widely
and grew in power.”
Rapid Assimilation of New Believers
Acts 2:41 “Those who accepted his message were
baptized…that day.”
Acts8:26-39 “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”
Acts 16:5 “…the churches…grew daily in numbers.”
Acts 18:5 “…grew daily in numbers.”
Remove Obstacles
Luke 3:4-6 “…make straight the way of the Lord…”
The Man of Peace, Opening New Work
Luke 10:1-18 …when you enter a town…”
Unreached People Groups
Matthew 18:12-13 - Parable of the Lost Sheep
Romans 15:20-23 “…my ambition to preach where Christ
was
not known”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
1. Start with prayer – know the mind of God and join Him in His
work
2. Everything is grounded in Scripture
3. Focus is on households, not individuals
4. Make Disciples, not converts
5. Teach obedience-based discipleship, not knowledge-based
6. Plan your work and work your plan – be intentional in
Evangelism and Church Planting
CRITICAL ELEMENT
7. Start with the Man of Peace or an existing relationship that will
permit a Discovery Bible Study or Witness
8. Form new believers into minimum practice groups that will
become churches
9. Develop a group DNA of urgent obedience that will reach out
to “ALL”
10. Develop a group DNA of rapidly reproducing disciples,
leaders, groups and churches
11. Training is done “On the Job”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
12. Keep all things reproducible by local leaders
13. Use unpaid local leaders to start new groups
14. Authority of Scripture and the Holy Spirit are all that is needed
to start
15. Do not require cultural suicide
16. Persecution is part of being a Christian
17. Discipleship and Training are continuous and primarily done
through mentoring
18. Model, Equip, Watch, and Leave
COUNTER INTUITIVE
1. Go slow at first to go fast later… focus on few to win may
2. Stay only where Jesus has prepared someone’s heart to hear
and obey
3. Do not focus on personal evangelism… focus on evangelizing
the whole community through families
4. Start with creation not Christ
5. Disciple people to conversion… not vice versa
6. A novice insider will produce more fruit than a highly trained
outsider
COUNTER INTUITIVE
7. Prepare to spend a long time making strong disciples, but
anticipate miracle accelerations
8. The best time for a church to plant a new church is when it is
brand new
9. Focus on discipling ordinary people not developing
”Professional” Christians
10. Expect the hardest places to yield the greatest result
11. Small for-profit project often yield much higher long term
access to resistant areas than free services
9. Train,
Coach,
Mentor,
watch and
Leave
1. Identify
Community
2. Pray for
Community
8. Identify
Natural Local
Leader(S)
Baptize, believing
families, Plant a
Church
3. Do
Community
Profile
/People group
7. Share Testimony &
Stories.
Start Discovery Bible
study
6. Create
Relationship
Through
service
4. Send Spies
5. Identify
Person/
Family of
Peace
CHURCH GROWTH TYPES
People are inspired
and saved
Elephant Type Church
•Big
• Lots of Programs
• Holy Atmosphere (“church-like”)
・Stained glass
・Choir
・Good preaching
Slow to Multiply
•Fertile four time a year
•One baby per pregnancy (22 month gestation period)
•Sexual Maturity … 18 Years
Indispensable
Need to grow
One Pair of Elephants
One Pair of Elephants
…The family grows from 2 to 3
Each
5,500 kg
Total
16,500 kg
Rabbit Type Church
•Small Group Oriented
•Scripture is Primary Source of all Teaching
Rabbits are small,
Multiply Rapidly
Rabbits
• Practically continuously fertile
• Average of 7 babies per pregnancy
(1 month gestation period)
• Sexual Maturity… 4 months
… 3 years… Two Rabbits
In
become…
Each
1 kg
Total
476,000,000
kg
476 Million
SPECK
S – Is there a Sin to avoid or confess?
P – Is there a promise, a prayer, or praise in this
passage?
E – Is there an example to follow (or not follow)?
C – Is there a command to obey?
K – Is there knowledge that I need to retain?
What are we going to do with what we have learned
TODAY?
Text
John 3:16-17
What do you
understand?
How can you
Obey?
How can you
teach others to
Obey?
John 3:16 -17
"For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world
through him.
Slide 5
By
Pastor Shodankeh Johnson
INTRODUCTION
THE PRESENT SCENARIO
Encountering the World of Islam
1/5 of humanity bows to Islam’s Allah
20% of the world are Muslims
60% of the worlds poor are Muslim
80% of the world’s refugees are Muslim
GO TO
MATTHEW 28:16-20
People
who hate you
People who will want to kill you
Those we love and fear
People who don’t love you
People who are different from you
Go refers to change of heart rather than
just moving
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT CHURCH PLANTING
You will not find “Church Planting Movements”
mentioned anywhere in the Bible. Yet, the first
century world was swirling with new converts and
multiplying indigenous churches planting
churches which are Church Planting Movements.
Let’s take a look at the characteristics of Church
Planting Movements and see what the Bible has
to say about them.
Abundant Gospel Sowing
2 Corinthians 9:6
“…whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
1 Thessalonians 1:8
“The Lord’s message rang out from you…”
All Peoples Will Be Reached
Psalms 67 “Let all the peoples praise you.”
Matthew 24:3, 14 “…and this gospel shall be preached to all
peoples.”
Revelation 5:9 “..you purchased men for God from every tribe…”
Revelation 7:9 “…a multitude that no one could count, from every
nation…”
Revelation 15:4 “All nations will come and worship before you.”
Psalm 96 “Ascribe to the Lord, O families of nations…”
God Will Do It
Philippians 1:6 “He who began…will do it.”
1 Peter 4:11 “…do it with the strength God provides.”
God’s Word
Acts 17:11 “…examined the Scriptures every day to see if…”
HOUSE CHURCHES
Acts 5:42 “…from house to house…”
Acts 8:3 “Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to
house…”
Acts 12:12 “…the house of Mary…where many people had
gathered…”
Romans 16:5 “Greet also the church that meets at their house.”
1 Corinthians 16:19 “…the church that meets at their house.”
Colossians 4:15 “…the church in her house.”
Philemon 2 “…the church that meets in your home.”
Lay Leadership
Psalm 119:97-100 “I have more insight than my teachers…for I obey…”
Jeremiah 1:7 “Do not say, ‘I am only a child…’”
Luke 8:39 “…so the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus…”
Acts 4:13 “…they were unschooled, ordinary men.”
1 Corinthians 1:26 “…not many were wise by human standards…”
2 Corinthians 3:4-5 “Not that we are competent in ourselves…”
1 Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young.”
1 Peter 2:9-10 “…you are a royal priesthood…”
1 Peter 4:10-11 “Each one should use whatever gift he has…”
Indigenous Leadership
2
Model, Equip, Watch & Leave
Timothy 2:2 “…entrust to reliable men…”
Titus
1:5 “…appoint elders in every town…
Multiple Church Leaders
1 Corinthians 12:7 “Now to each one…the Spirit is given for the common
good.
1 Corinthians 14:26 “…everyone has a hymn, or a word…a revelation…’”
Ephesians 4:11-16 “…some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some…”
Oikos Evangelism
- Community Implications to Evangelism
Acts 16:15 “…she and the members of her household were baptized.”
Acts 16:31 “…you will be saved—you and your household.”
Paradigm Shift
Habakkuk 1:5 “…you would not believe even if you were
told.”
Matt. 9:17 “…new wineskins”
Romans 12:1 “Be not conformed to this world…”
Jonah 1-4 -The reluctant missionary
Persecution and Suffering
Matthew 10:17-25 “A student is not above his teacher.”
2 Corinthians 11:23-29 “I have known hunger and thirst.”
1 Peter 4:12-13 “Do not be surprised [that] you are
suffering.”
Revelation 6:9-11 “How long [until] you avenge our blood?”
Revelation 12:10-12 “He is filled with fury, he knows his
time
is short.”
PRAYER
Psalms 2:8 “…ask of me and I will give you the ends of
the earth.”
Luke 5:16 “…Jesus often went off to a lonely place and
prayed.”
Luke 6:12 “…Jesus…spent the night praying to God…”
RAPID SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL
Acts 2:47 “…the Lord added to their number daily
those…being saved.”
Acts 19:20 “In this way the word of the Lord spread widely
and grew in power.”
Rapid Assimilation of New Believers
Acts 2:41 “Those who accepted his message were
baptized…that day.”
Acts8:26-39 “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”
Acts 16:5 “…the churches…grew daily in numbers.”
Acts 18:5 “…grew daily in numbers.”
Remove Obstacles
Luke 3:4-6 “…make straight the way of the Lord…”
The Man of Peace, Opening New Work
Luke 10:1-18 …when you enter a town…”
Unreached People Groups
Matthew 18:12-13 - Parable of the Lost Sheep
Romans 15:20-23 “…my ambition to preach where Christ
was
not known”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
1. Start with prayer – know the mind of God and join Him in His
work
2. Everything is grounded in Scripture
3. Focus is on households, not individuals
4. Make Disciples, not converts
5. Teach obedience-based discipleship, not knowledge-based
6. Plan your work and work your plan – be intentional in
Evangelism and Church Planting
CRITICAL ELEMENT
7. Start with the Man of Peace or an existing relationship that will
permit a Discovery Bible Study or Witness
8. Form new believers into minimum practice groups that will
become churches
9. Develop a group DNA of urgent obedience that will reach out
to “ALL”
10. Develop a group DNA of rapidly reproducing disciples,
leaders, groups and churches
11. Training is done “On the Job”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
12. Keep all things reproducible by local leaders
13. Use unpaid local leaders to start new groups
14. Authority of Scripture and the Holy Spirit are all that is needed
to start
15. Do not require cultural suicide
16. Persecution is part of being a Christian
17. Discipleship and Training are continuous and primarily done
through mentoring
18. Model, Equip, Watch, and Leave
COUNTER INTUITIVE
1. Go slow at first to go fast later… focus on few to win may
2. Stay only where Jesus has prepared someone’s heart to hear
and obey
3. Do not focus on personal evangelism… focus on evangelizing
the whole community through families
4. Start with creation not Christ
5. Disciple people to conversion… not vice versa
6. A novice insider will produce more fruit than a highly trained
outsider
COUNTER INTUITIVE
7. Prepare to spend a long time making strong disciples, but
anticipate miracle accelerations
8. The best time for a church to plant a new church is when it is
brand new
9. Focus on discipling ordinary people not developing
”Professional” Christians
10. Expect the hardest places to yield the greatest result
11. Small for-profit project often yield much higher long term
access to resistant areas than free services
9. Train,
Coach,
Mentor,
watch and
Leave
1. Identify
Community
2. Pray for
Community
8. Identify
Natural Local
Leader(S)
Baptize, believing
families, Plant a
Church
3. Do
Community
Profile
/People group
7. Share Testimony &
Stories.
Start Discovery Bible
study
6. Create
Relationship
Through
service
4. Send Spies
5. Identify
Person/
Family of
Peace
CHURCH GROWTH TYPES
People are inspired
and saved
Elephant Type Church
•Big
• Lots of Programs
• Holy Atmosphere (“church-like”)
・Stained glass
・Choir
・Good preaching
Slow to Multiply
•Fertile four time a year
•One baby per pregnancy (22 month gestation period)
•Sexual Maturity … 18 Years
Indispensable
Need to grow
One Pair of Elephants
One Pair of Elephants
…The family grows from 2 to 3
Each
5,500 kg
Total
16,500 kg
Rabbit Type Church
•Small Group Oriented
•Scripture is Primary Source of all Teaching
Rabbits are small,
Multiply Rapidly
Rabbits
• Practically continuously fertile
• Average of 7 babies per pregnancy
(1 month gestation period)
• Sexual Maturity… 4 months
… 3 years… Two Rabbits
In
become…
Each
1 kg
Total
476,000,000
kg
476 Million
SPECK
S – Is there a Sin to avoid or confess?
P – Is there a promise, a prayer, or praise in this
passage?
E – Is there an example to follow (or not follow)?
C – Is there a command to obey?
K – Is there knowledge that I need to retain?
What are we going to do with what we have learned
TODAY?
Text
John 3:16-17
What do you
understand?
How can you
Obey?
How can you
teach others to
Obey?
John 3:16 -17
"For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world
through him.
Slide 6
By
Pastor Shodankeh Johnson
INTRODUCTION
THE PRESENT SCENARIO
Encountering the World of Islam
1/5 of humanity bows to Islam’s Allah
20% of the world are Muslims
60% of the worlds poor are Muslim
80% of the world’s refugees are Muslim
GO TO
MATTHEW 28:16-20
People
who hate you
People who will want to kill you
Those we love and fear
People who don’t love you
People who are different from you
Go refers to change of heart rather than
just moving
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT CHURCH PLANTING
You will not find “Church Planting Movements”
mentioned anywhere in the Bible. Yet, the first
century world was swirling with new converts and
multiplying indigenous churches planting
churches which are Church Planting Movements.
Let’s take a look at the characteristics of Church
Planting Movements and see what the Bible has
to say about them.
Abundant Gospel Sowing
2 Corinthians 9:6
“…whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
1 Thessalonians 1:8
“The Lord’s message rang out from you…”
All Peoples Will Be Reached
Psalms 67 “Let all the peoples praise you.”
Matthew 24:3, 14 “…and this gospel shall be preached to all
peoples.”
Revelation 5:9 “..you purchased men for God from every tribe…”
Revelation 7:9 “…a multitude that no one could count, from every
nation…”
Revelation 15:4 “All nations will come and worship before you.”
Psalm 96 “Ascribe to the Lord, O families of nations…”
God Will Do It
Philippians 1:6 “He who began…will do it.”
1 Peter 4:11 “…do it with the strength God provides.”
God’s Word
Acts 17:11 “…examined the Scriptures every day to see if…”
HOUSE CHURCHES
Acts 5:42 “…from house to house…”
Acts 8:3 “Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to
house…”
Acts 12:12 “…the house of Mary…where many people had
gathered…”
Romans 16:5 “Greet also the church that meets at their house.”
1 Corinthians 16:19 “…the church that meets at their house.”
Colossians 4:15 “…the church in her house.”
Philemon 2 “…the church that meets in your home.”
Lay Leadership
Psalm 119:97-100 “I have more insight than my teachers…for I obey…”
Jeremiah 1:7 “Do not say, ‘I am only a child…’”
Luke 8:39 “…so the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus…”
Acts 4:13 “…they were unschooled, ordinary men.”
1 Corinthians 1:26 “…not many were wise by human standards…”
2 Corinthians 3:4-5 “Not that we are competent in ourselves…”
1 Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young.”
1 Peter 2:9-10 “…you are a royal priesthood…”
1 Peter 4:10-11 “Each one should use whatever gift he has…”
Indigenous Leadership
2
Model, Equip, Watch & Leave
Timothy 2:2 “…entrust to reliable men…”
Titus
1:5 “…appoint elders in every town…
Multiple Church Leaders
1 Corinthians 12:7 “Now to each one…the Spirit is given for the common
good.
1 Corinthians 14:26 “…everyone has a hymn, or a word…a revelation…’”
Ephesians 4:11-16 “…some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some…”
Oikos Evangelism
- Community Implications to Evangelism
Acts 16:15 “…she and the members of her household were baptized.”
Acts 16:31 “…you will be saved—you and your household.”
Paradigm Shift
Habakkuk 1:5 “…you would not believe even if you were
told.”
Matt. 9:17 “…new wineskins”
Romans 12:1 “Be not conformed to this world…”
Jonah 1-4 -The reluctant missionary
Persecution and Suffering
Matthew 10:17-25 “A student is not above his teacher.”
2 Corinthians 11:23-29 “I have known hunger and thirst.”
1 Peter 4:12-13 “Do not be surprised [that] you are
suffering.”
Revelation 6:9-11 “How long [until] you avenge our blood?”
Revelation 12:10-12 “He is filled with fury, he knows his
time
is short.”
PRAYER
Psalms 2:8 “…ask of me and I will give you the ends of
the earth.”
Luke 5:16 “…Jesus often went off to a lonely place and
prayed.”
Luke 6:12 “…Jesus…spent the night praying to God…”
RAPID SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL
Acts 2:47 “…the Lord added to their number daily
those…being saved.”
Acts 19:20 “In this way the word of the Lord spread widely
and grew in power.”
Rapid Assimilation of New Believers
Acts 2:41 “Those who accepted his message were
baptized…that day.”
Acts8:26-39 “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”
Acts 16:5 “…the churches…grew daily in numbers.”
Acts 18:5 “…grew daily in numbers.”
Remove Obstacles
Luke 3:4-6 “…make straight the way of the Lord…”
The Man of Peace, Opening New Work
Luke 10:1-18 …when you enter a town…”
Unreached People Groups
Matthew 18:12-13 - Parable of the Lost Sheep
Romans 15:20-23 “…my ambition to preach where Christ
was
not known”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
1. Start with prayer – know the mind of God and join Him in His
work
2. Everything is grounded in Scripture
3. Focus is on households, not individuals
4. Make Disciples, not converts
5. Teach obedience-based discipleship, not knowledge-based
6. Plan your work and work your plan – be intentional in
Evangelism and Church Planting
CRITICAL ELEMENT
7. Start with the Man of Peace or an existing relationship that will
permit a Discovery Bible Study or Witness
8. Form new believers into minimum practice groups that will
become churches
9. Develop a group DNA of urgent obedience that will reach out
to “ALL”
10. Develop a group DNA of rapidly reproducing disciples,
leaders, groups and churches
11. Training is done “On the Job”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
12. Keep all things reproducible by local leaders
13. Use unpaid local leaders to start new groups
14. Authority of Scripture and the Holy Spirit are all that is needed
to start
15. Do not require cultural suicide
16. Persecution is part of being a Christian
17. Discipleship and Training are continuous and primarily done
through mentoring
18. Model, Equip, Watch, and Leave
COUNTER INTUITIVE
1. Go slow at first to go fast later… focus on few to win may
2. Stay only where Jesus has prepared someone’s heart to hear
and obey
3. Do not focus on personal evangelism… focus on evangelizing
the whole community through families
4. Start with creation not Christ
5. Disciple people to conversion… not vice versa
6. A novice insider will produce more fruit than a highly trained
outsider
COUNTER INTUITIVE
7. Prepare to spend a long time making strong disciples, but
anticipate miracle accelerations
8. The best time for a church to plant a new church is when it is
brand new
9. Focus on discipling ordinary people not developing
”Professional” Christians
10. Expect the hardest places to yield the greatest result
11. Small for-profit project often yield much higher long term
access to resistant areas than free services
9. Train,
Coach,
Mentor,
watch and
Leave
1. Identify
Community
2. Pray for
Community
8. Identify
Natural Local
Leader(S)
Baptize, believing
families, Plant a
Church
3. Do
Community
Profile
/People group
7. Share Testimony &
Stories.
Start Discovery Bible
study
6. Create
Relationship
Through
service
4. Send Spies
5. Identify
Person/
Family of
Peace
CHURCH GROWTH TYPES
People are inspired
and saved
Elephant Type Church
•Big
• Lots of Programs
• Holy Atmosphere (“church-like”)
・Stained glass
・Choir
・Good preaching
Slow to Multiply
•Fertile four time a year
•One baby per pregnancy (22 month gestation period)
•Sexual Maturity … 18 Years
Indispensable
Need to grow
One Pair of Elephants
One Pair of Elephants
…The family grows from 2 to 3
Each
5,500 kg
Total
16,500 kg
Rabbit Type Church
•Small Group Oriented
•Scripture is Primary Source of all Teaching
Rabbits are small,
Multiply Rapidly
Rabbits
• Practically continuously fertile
• Average of 7 babies per pregnancy
(1 month gestation period)
• Sexual Maturity… 4 months
… 3 years… Two Rabbits
In
become…
Each
1 kg
Total
476,000,000
kg
476 Million
SPECK
S – Is there a Sin to avoid or confess?
P – Is there a promise, a prayer, or praise in this
passage?
E – Is there an example to follow (or not follow)?
C – Is there a command to obey?
K – Is there knowledge that I need to retain?
What are we going to do with what we have learned
TODAY?
Text
John 3:16-17
What do you
understand?
How can you
Obey?
How can you
teach others to
Obey?
John 3:16 -17
"For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world
through him.
Slide 7
By
Pastor Shodankeh Johnson
INTRODUCTION
THE PRESENT SCENARIO
Encountering the World of Islam
1/5 of humanity bows to Islam’s Allah
20% of the world are Muslims
60% of the worlds poor are Muslim
80% of the world’s refugees are Muslim
GO TO
MATTHEW 28:16-20
People
who hate you
People who will want to kill you
Those we love and fear
People who don’t love you
People who are different from you
Go refers to change of heart rather than
just moving
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT CHURCH PLANTING
You will not find “Church Planting Movements”
mentioned anywhere in the Bible. Yet, the first
century world was swirling with new converts and
multiplying indigenous churches planting
churches which are Church Planting Movements.
Let’s take a look at the characteristics of Church
Planting Movements and see what the Bible has
to say about them.
Abundant Gospel Sowing
2 Corinthians 9:6
“…whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
1 Thessalonians 1:8
“The Lord’s message rang out from you…”
All Peoples Will Be Reached
Psalms 67 “Let all the peoples praise you.”
Matthew 24:3, 14 “…and this gospel shall be preached to all
peoples.”
Revelation 5:9 “..you purchased men for God from every tribe…”
Revelation 7:9 “…a multitude that no one could count, from every
nation…”
Revelation 15:4 “All nations will come and worship before you.”
Psalm 96 “Ascribe to the Lord, O families of nations…”
God Will Do It
Philippians 1:6 “He who began…will do it.”
1 Peter 4:11 “…do it with the strength God provides.”
God’s Word
Acts 17:11 “…examined the Scriptures every day to see if…”
HOUSE CHURCHES
Acts 5:42 “…from house to house…”
Acts 8:3 “Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to
house…”
Acts 12:12 “…the house of Mary…where many people had
gathered…”
Romans 16:5 “Greet also the church that meets at their house.”
1 Corinthians 16:19 “…the church that meets at their house.”
Colossians 4:15 “…the church in her house.”
Philemon 2 “…the church that meets in your home.”
Lay Leadership
Psalm 119:97-100 “I have more insight than my teachers…for I obey…”
Jeremiah 1:7 “Do not say, ‘I am only a child…’”
Luke 8:39 “…so the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus…”
Acts 4:13 “…they were unschooled, ordinary men.”
1 Corinthians 1:26 “…not many were wise by human standards…”
2 Corinthians 3:4-5 “Not that we are competent in ourselves…”
1 Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young.”
1 Peter 2:9-10 “…you are a royal priesthood…”
1 Peter 4:10-11 “Each one should use whatever gift he has…”
Indigenous Leadership
2
Model, Equip, Watch & Leave
Timothy 2:2 “…entrust to reliable men…”
Titus
1:5 “…appoint elders in every town…
Multiple Church Leaders
1 Corinthians 12:7 “Now to each one…the Spirit is given for the common
good.
1 Corinthians 14:26 “…everyone has a hymn, or a word…a revelation…’”
Ephesians 4:11-16 “…some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some…”
Oikos Evangelism
- Community Implications to Evangelism
Acts 16:15 “…she and the members of her household were baptized.”
Acts 16:31 “…you will be saved—you and your household.”
Paradigm Shift
Habakkuk 1:5 “…you would not believe even if you were
told.”
Matt. 9:17 “…new wineskins”
Romans 12:1 “Be not conformed to this world…”
Jonah 1-4 -The reluctant missionary
Persecution and Suffering
Matthew 10:17-25 “A student is not above his teacher.”
2 Corinthians 11:23-29 “I have known hunger and thirst.”
1 Peter 4:12-13 “Do not be surprised [that] you are
suffering.”
Revelation 6:9-11 “How long [until] you avenge our blood?”
Revelation 12:10-12 “He is filled with fury, he knows his
time
is short.”
PRAYER
Psalms 2:8 “…ask of me and I will give you the ends of
the earth.”
Luke 5:16 “…Jesus often went off to a lonely place and
prayed.”
Luke 6:12 “…Jesus…spent the night praying to God…”
RAPID SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL
Acts 2:47 “…the Lord added to their number daily
those…being saved.”
Acts 19:20 “In this way the word of the Lord spread widely
and grew in power.”
Rapid Assimilation of New Believers
Acts 2:41 “Those who accepted his message were
baptized…that day.”
Acts8:26-39 “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”
Acts 16:5 “…the churches…grew daily in numbers.”
Acts 18:5 “…grew daily in numbers.”
Remove Obstacles
Luke 3:4-6 “…make straight the way of the Lord…”
The Man of Peace, Opening New Work
Luke 10:1-18 …when you enter a town…”
Unreached People Groups
Matthew 18:12-13 - Parable of the Lost Sheep
Romans 15:20-23 “…my ambition to preach where Christ
was
not known”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
1. Start with prayer – know the mind of God and join Him in His
work
2. Everything is grounded in Scripture
3. Focus is on households, not individuals
4. Make Disciples, not converts
5. Teach obedience-based discipleship, not knowledge-based
6. Plan your work and work your plan – be intentional in
Evangelism and Church Planting
CRITICAL ELEMENT
7. Start with the Man of Peace or an existing relationship that will
permit a Discovery Bible Study or Witness
8. Form new believers into minimum practice groups that will
become churches
9. Develop a group DNA of urgent obedience that will reach out
to “ALL”
10. Develop a group DNA of rapidly reproducing disciples,
leaders, groups and churches
11. Training is done “On the Job”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
12. Keep all things reproducible by local leaders
13. Use unpaid local leaders to start new groups
14. Authority of Scripture and the Holy Spirit are all that is needed
to start
15. Do not require cultural suicide
16. Persecution is part of being a Christian
17. Discipleship and Training are continuous and primarily done
through mentoring
18. Model, Equip, Watch, and Leave
COUNTER INTUITIVE
1. Go slow at first to go fast later… focus on few to win may
2. Stay only where Jesus has prepared someone’s heart to hear
and obey
3. Do not focus on personal evangelism… focus on evangelizing
the whole community through families
4. Start with creation not Christ
5. Disciple people to conversion… not vice versa
6. A novice insider will produce more fruit than a highly trained
outsider
COUNTER INTUITIVE
7. Prepare to spend a long time making strong disciples, but
anticipate miracle accelerations
8. The best time for a church to plant a new church is when it is
brand new
9. Focus on discipling ordinary people not developing
”Professional” Christians
10. Expect the hardest places to yield the greatest result
11. Small for-profit project often yield much higher long term
access to resistant areas than free services
9. Train,
Coach,
Mentor,
watch and
Leave
1. Identify
Community
2. Pray for
Community
8. Identify
Natural Local
Leader(S)
Baptize, believing
families, Plant a
Church
3. Do
Community
Profile
/People group
7. Share Testimony &
Stories.
Start Discovery Bible
study
6. Create
Relationship
Through
service
4. Send Spies
5. Identify
Person/
Family of
Peace
CHURCH GROWTH TYPES
People are inspired
and saved
Elephant Type Church
•Big
• Lots of Programs
• Holy Atmosphere (“church-like”)
・Stained glass
・Choir
・Good preaching
Slow to Multiply
•Fertile four time a year
•One baby per pregnancy (22 month gestation period)
•Sexual Maturity … 18 Years
Indispensable
Need to grow
One Pair of Elephants
One Pair of Elephants
…The family grows from 2 to 3
Each
5,500 kg
Total
16,500 kg
Rabbit Type Church
•Small Group Oriented
•Scripture is Primary Source of all Teaching
Rabbits are small,
Multiply Rapidly
Rabbits
• Practically continuously fertile
• Average of 7 babies per pregnancy
(1 month gestation period)
• Sexual Maturity… 4 months
… 3 years… Two Rabbits
In
become…
Each
1 kg
Total
476,000,000
kg
476 Million
SPECK
S – Is there a Sin to avoid or confess?
P – Is there a promise, a prayer, or praise in this
passage?
E – Is there an example to follow (or not follow)?
C – Is there a command to obey?
K – Is there knowledge that I need to retain?
What are we going to do with what we have learned
TODAY?
Text
John 3:16-17
What do you
understand?
How can you
Obey?
How can you
teach others to
Obey?
John 3:16 -17
"For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world
through him.
Slide 8
By
Pastor Shodankeh Johnson
INTRODUCTION
THE PRESENT SCENARIO
Encountering the World of Islam
1/5 of humanity bows to Islam’s Allah
20% of the world are Muslims
60% of the worlds poor are Muslim
80% of the world’s refugees are Muslim
GO TO
MATTHEW 28:16-20
People
who hate you
People who will want to kill you
Those we love and fear
People who don’t love you
People who are different from you
Go refers to change of heart rather than
just moving
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT CHURCH PLANTING
You will not find “Church Planting Movements”
mentioned anywhere in the Bible. Yet, the first
century world was swirling with new converts and
multiplying indigenous churches planting
churches which are Church Planting Movements.
Let’s take a look at the characteristics of Church
Planting Movements and see what the Bible has
to say about them.
Abundant Gospel Sowing
2 Corinthians 9:6
“…whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
1 Thessalonians 1:8
“The Lord’s message rang out from you…”
All Peoples Will Be Reached
Psalms 67 “Let all the peoples praise you.”
Matthew 24:3, 14 “…and this gospel shall be preached to all
peoples.”
Revelation 5:9 “..you purchased men for God from every tribe…”
Revelation 7:9 “…a multitude that no one could count, from every
nation…”
Revelation 15:4 “All nations will come and worship before you.”
Psalm 96 “Ascribe to the Lord, O families of nations…”
God Will Do It
Philippians 1:6 “He who began…will do it.”
1 Peter 4:11 “…do it with the strength God provides.”
God’s Word
Acts 17:11 “…examined the Scriptures every day to see if…”
HOUSE CHURCHES
Acts 5:42 “…from house to house…”
Acts 8:3 “Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to
house…”
Acts 12:12 “…the house of Mary…where many people had
gathered…”
Romans 16:5 “Greet also the church that meets at their house.”
1 Corinthians 16:19 “…the church that meets at their house.”
Colossians 4:15 “…the church in her house.”
Philemon 2 “…the church that meets in your home.”
Lay Leadership
Psalm 119:97-100 “I have more insight than my teachers…for I obey…”
Jeremiah 1:7 “Do not say, ‘I am only a child…’”
Luke 8:39 “…so the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus…”
Acts 4:13 “…they were unschooled, ordinary men.”
1 Corinthians 1:26 “…not many were wise by human standards…”
2 Corinthians 3:4-5 “Not that we are competent in ourselves…”
1 Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young.”
1 Peter 2:9-10 “…you are a royal priesthood…”
1 Peter 4:10-11 “Each one should use whatever gift he has…”
Indigenous Leadership
2
Model, Equip, Watch & Leave
Timothy 2:2 “…entrust to reliable men…”
Titus
1:5 “…appoint elders in every town…
Multiple Church Leaders
1 Corinthians 12:7 “Now to each one…the Spirit is given for the common
good.
1 Corinthians 14:26 “…everyone has a hymn, or a word…a revelation…’”
Ephesians 4:11-16 “…some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some…”
Oikos Evangelism
- Community Implications to Evangelism
Acts 16:15 “…she and the members of her household were baptized.”
Acts 16:31 “…you will be saved—you and your household.”
Paradigm Shift
Habakkuk 1:5 “…you would not believe even if you were
told.”
Matt. 9:17 “…new wineskins”
Romans 12:1 “Be not conformed to this world…”
Jonah 1-4 -The reluctant missionary
Persecution and Suffering
Matthew 10:17-25 “A student is not above his teacher.”
2 Corinthians 11:23-29 “I have known hunger and thirst.”
1 Peter 4:12-13 “Do not be surprised [that] you are
suffering.”
Revelation 6:9-11 “How long [until] you avenge our blood?”
Revelation 12:10-12 “He is filled with fury, he knows his
time
is short.”
PRAYER
Psalms 2:8 “…ask of me and I will give you the ends of
the earth.”
Luke 5:16 “…Jesus often went off to a lonely place and
prayed.”
Luke 6:12 “…Jesus…spent the night praying to God…”
RAPID SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL
Acts 2:47 “…the Lord added to their number daily
those…being saved.”
Acts 19:20 “In this way the word of the Lord spread widely
and grew in power.”
Rapid Assimilation of New Believers
Acts 2:41 “Those who accepted his message were
baptized…that day.”
Acts8:26-39 “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”
Acts 16:5 “…the churches…grew daily in numbers.”
Acts 18:5 “…grew daily in numbers.”
Remove Obstacles
Luke 3:4-6 “…make straight the way of the Lord…”
The Man of Peace, Opening New Work
Luke 10:1-18 …when you enter a town…”
Unreached People Groups
Matthew 18:12-13 - Parable of the Lost Sheep
Romans 15:20-23 “…my ambition to preach where Christ
was
not known”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
1. Start with prayer – know the mind of God and join Him in His
work
2. Everything is grounded in Scripture
3. Focus is on households, not individuals
4. Make Disciples, not converts
5. Teach obedience-based discipleship, not knowledge-based
6. Plan your work and work your plan – be intentional in
Evangelism and Church Planting
CRITICAL ELEMENT
7. Start with the Man of Peace or an existing relationship that will
permit a Discovery Bible Study or Witness
8. Form new believers into minimum practice groups that will
become churches
9. Develop a group DNA of urgent obedience that will reach out
to “ALL”
10. Develop a group DNA of rapidly reproducing disciples,
leaders, groups and churches
11. Training is done “On the Job”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
12. Keep all things reproducible by local leaders
13. Use unpaid local leaders to start new groups
14. Authority of Scripture and the Holy Spirit are all that is needed
to start
15. Do not require cultural suicide
16. Persecution is part of being a Christian
17. Discipleship and Training are continuous and primarily done
through mentoring
18. Model, Equip, Watch, and Leave
COUNTER INTUITIVE
1. Go slow at first to go fast later… focus on few to win may
2. Stay only where Jesus has prepared someone’s heart to hear
and obey
3. Do not focus on personal evangelism… focus on evangelizing
the whole community through families
4. Start with creation not Christ
5. Disciple people to conversion… not vice versa
6. A novice insider will produce more fruit than a highly trained
outsider
COUNTER INTUITIVE
7. Prepare to spend a long time making strong disciples, but
anticipate miracle accelerations
8. The best time for a church to plant a new church is when it is
brand new
9. Focus on discipling ordinary people not developing
”Professional” Christians
10. Expect the hardest places to yield the greatest result
11. Small for-profit project often yield much higher long term
access to resistant areas than free services
9. Train,
Coach,
Mentor,
watch and
Leave
1. Identify
Community
2. Pray for
Community
8. Identify
Natural Local
Leader(S)
Baptize, believing
families, Plant a
Church
3. Do
Community
Profile
/People group
7. Share Testimony &
Stories.
Start Discovery Bible
study
6. Create
Relationship
Through
service
4. Send Spies
5. Identify
Person/
Family of
Peace
CHURCH GROWTH TYPES
People are inspired
and saved
Elephant Type Church
•Big
• Lots of Programs
• Holy Atmosphere (“church-like”)
・Stained glass
・Choir
・Good preaching
Slow to Multiply
•Fertile four time a year
•One baby per pregnancy (22 month gestation period)
•Sexual Maturity … 18 Years
Indispensable
Need to grow
One Pair of Elephants
One Pair of Elephants
…The family grows from 2 to 3
Each
5,500 kg
Total
16,500 kg
Rabbit Type Church
•Small Group Oriented
•Scripture is Primary Source of all Teaching
Rabbits are small,
Multiply Rapidly
Rabbits
• Practically continuously fertile
• Average of 7 babies per pregnancy
(1 month gestation period)
• Sexual Maturity… 4 months
… 3 years… Two Rabbits
In
become…
Each
1 kg
Total
476,000,000
kg
476 Million
SPECK
S – Is there a Sin to avoid or confess?
P – Is there a promise, a prayer, or praise in this
passage?
E – Is there an example to follow (or not follow)?
C – Is there a command to obey?
K – Is there knowledge that I need to retain?
What are we going to do with what we have learned
TODAY?
Text
John 3:16-17
What do you
understand?
How can you
Obey?
How can you
teach others to
Obey?
John 3:16 -17
"For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world
through him.
Slide 9
By
Pastor Shodankeh Johnson
INTRODUCTION
THE PRESENT SCENARIO
Encountering the World of Islam
1/5 of humanity bows to Islam’s Allah
20% of the world are Muslims
60% of the worlds poor are Muslim
80% of the world’s refugees are Muslim
GO TO
MATTHEW 28:16-20
People
who hate you
People who will want to kill you
Those we love and fear
People who don’t love you
People who are different from you
Go refers to change of heart rather than
just moving
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT CHURCH PLANTING
You will not find “Church Planting Movements”
mentioned anywhere in the Bible. Yet, the first
century world was swirling with new converts and
multiplying indigenous churches planting
churches which are Church Planting Movements.
Let’s take a look at the characteristics of Church
Planting Movements and see what the Bible has
to say about them.
Abundant Gospel Sowing
2 Corinthians 9:6
“…whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
1 Thessalonians 1:8
“The Lord’s message rang out from you…”
All Peoples Will Be Reached
Psalms 67 “Let all the peoples praise you.”
Matthew 24:3, 14 “…and this gospel shall be preached to all
peoples.”
Revelation 5:9 “..you purchased men for God from every tribe…”
Revelation 7:9 “…a multitude that no one could count, from every
nation…”
Revelation 15:4 “All nations will come and worship before you.”
Psalm 96 “Ascribe to the Lord, O families of nations…”
God Will Do It
Philippians 1:6 “He who began…will do it.”
1 Peter 4:11 “…do it with the strength God provides.”
God’s Word
Acts 17:11 “…examined the Scriptures every day to see if…”
HOUSE CHURCHES
Acts 5:42 “…from house to house…”
Acts 8:3 “Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to
house…”
Acts 12:12 “…the house of Mary…where many people had
gathered…”
Romans 16:5 “Greet also the church that meets at their house.”
1 Corinthians 16:19 “…the church that meets at their house.”
Colossians 4:15 “…the church in her house.”
Philemon 2 “…the church that meets in your home.”
Lay Leadership
Psalm 119:97-100 “I have more insight than my teachers…for I obey…”
Jeremiah 1:7 “Do not say, ‘I am only a child…’”
Luke 8:39 “…so the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus…”
Acts 4:13 “…they were unschooled, ordinary men.”
1 Corinthians 1:26 “…not many were wise by human standards…”
2 Corinthians 3:4-5 “Not that we are competent in ourselves…”
1 Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young.”
1 Peter 2:9-10 “…you are a royal priesthood…”
1 Peter 4:10-11 “Each one should use whatever gift he has…”
Indigenous Leadership
2
Model, Equip, Watch & Leave
Timothy 2:2 “…entrust to reliable men…”
Titus
1:5 “…appoint elders in every town…
Multiple Church Leaders
1 Corinthians 12:7 “Now to each one…the Spirit is given for the common
good.
1 Corinthians 14:26 “…everyone has a hymn, or a word…a revelation…’”
Ephesians 4:11-16 “…some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some…”
Oikos Evangelism
- Community Implications to Evangelism
Acts 16:15 “…she and the members of her household were baptized.”
Acts 16:31 “…you will be saved—you and your household.”
Paradigm Shift
Habakkuk 1:5 “…you would not believe even if you were
told.”
Matt. 9:17 “…new wineskins”
Romans 12:1 “Be not conformed to this world…”
Jonah 1-4 -The reluctant missionary
Persecution and Suffering
Matthew 10:17-25 “A student is not above his teacher.”
2 Corinthians 11:23-29 “I have known hunger and thirst.”
1 Peter 4:12-13 “Do not be surprised [that] you are
suffering.”
Revelation 6:9-11 “How long [until] you avenge our blood?”
Revelation 12:10-12 “He is filled with fury, he knows his
time
is short.”
PRAYER
Psalms 2:8 “…ask of me and I will give you the ends of
the earth.”
Luke 5:16 “…Jesus often went off to a lonely place and
prayed.”
Luke 6:12 “…Jesus…spent the night praying to God…”
RAPID SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL
Acts 2:47 “…the Lord added to their number daily
those…being saved.”
Acts 19:20 “In this way the word of the Lord spread widely
and grew in power.”
Rapid Assimilation of New Believers
Acts 2:41 “Those who accepted his message were
baptized…that day.”
Acts8:26-39 “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”
Acts 16:5 “…the churches…grew daily in numbers.”
Acts 18:5 “…grew daily in numbers.”
Remove Obstacles
Luke 3:4-6 “…make straight the way of the Lord…”
The Man of Peace, Opening New Work
Luke 10:1-18 …when you enter a town…”
Unreached People Groups
Matthew 18:12-13 - Parable of the Lost Sheep
Romans 15:20-23 “…my ambition to preach where Christ
was
not known”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
1. Start with prayer – know the mind of God and join Him in His
work
2. Everything is grounded in Scripture
3. Focus is on households, not individuals
4. Make Disciples, not converts
5. Teach obedience-based discipleship, not knowledge-based
6. Plan your work and work your plan – be intentional in
Evangelism and Church Planting
CRITICAL ELEMENT
7. Start with the Man of Peace or an existing relationship that will
permit a Discovery Bible Study or Witness
8. Form new believers into minimum practice groups that will
become churches
9. Develop a group DNA of urgent obedience that will reach out
to “ALL”
10. Develop a group DNA of rapidly reproducing disciples,
leaders, groups and churches
11. Training is done “On the Job”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
12. Keep all things reproducible by local leaders
13. Use unpaid local leaders to start new groups
14. Authority of Scripture and the Holy Spirit are all that is needed
to start
15. Do not require cultural suicide
16. Persecution is part of being a Christian
17. Discipleship and Training are continuous and primarily done
through mentoring
18. Model, Equip, Watch, and Leave
COUNTER INTUITIVE
1. Go slow at first to go fast later… focus on few to win may
2. Stay only where Jesus has prepared someone’s heart to hear
and obey
3. Do not focus on personal evangelism… focus on evangelizing
the whole community through families
4. Start with creation not Christ
5. Disciple people to conversion… not vice versa
6. A novice insider will produce more fruit than a highly trained
outsider
COUNTER INTUITIVE
7. Prepare to spend a long time making strong disciples, but
anticipate miracle accelerations
8. The best time for a church to plant a new church is when it is
brand new
9. Focus on discipling ordinary people not developing
”Professional” Christians
10. Expect the hardest places to yield the greatest result
11. Small for-profit project often yield much higher long term
access to resistant areas than free services
9. Train,
Coach,
Mentor,
watch and
Leave
1. Identify
Community
2. Pray for
Community
8. Identify
Natural Local
Leader(S)
Baptize, believing
families, Plant a
Church
3. Do
Community
Profile
/People group
7. Share Testimony &
Stories.
Start Discovery Bible
study
6. Create
Relationship
Through
service
4. Send Spies
5. Identify
Person/
Family of
Peace
CHURCH GROWTH TYPES
People are inspired
and saved
Elephant Type Church
•Big
• Lots of Programs
• Holy Atmosphere (“church-like”)
・Stained glass
・Choir
・Good preaching
Slow to Multiply
•Fertile four time a year
•One baby per pregnancy (22 month gestation period)
•Sexual Maturity … 18 Years
Indispensable
Need to grow
One Pair of Elephants
One Pair of Elephants
…The family grows from 2 to 3
Each
5,500 kg
Total
16,500 kg
Rabbit Type Church
•Small Group Oriented
•Scripture is Primary Source of all Teaching
Rabbits are small,
Multiply Rapidly
Rabbits
• Practically continuously fertile
• Average of 7 babies per pregnancy
(1 month gestation period)
• Sexual Maturity… 4 months
… 3 years… Two Rabbits
In
become…
Each
1 kg
Total
476,000,000
kg
476 Million
SPECK
S – Is there a Sin to avoid or confess?
P – Is there a promise, a prayer, or praise in this
passage?
E – Is there an example to follow (or not follow)?
C – Is there a command to obey?
K – Is there knowledge that I need to retain?
What are we going to do with what we have learned
TODAY?
Text
John 3:16-17
What do you
understand?
How can you
Obey?
How can you
teach others to
Obey?
John 3:16 -17
"For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world
through him.
Slide 10
By
Pastor Shodankeh Johnson
INTRODUCTION
THE PRESENT SCENARIO
Encountering the World of Islam
1/5 of humanity bows to Islam’s Allah
20% of the world are Muslims
60% of the worlds poor are Muslim
80% of the world’s refugees are Muslim
GO TO
MATTHEW 28:16-20
People
who hate you
People who will want to kill you
Those we love and fear
People who don’t love you
People who are different from you
Go refers to change of heart rather than
just moving
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT CHURCH PLANTING
You will not find “Church Planting Movements”
mentioned anywhere in the Bible. Yet, the first
century world was swirling with new converts and
multiplying indigenous churches planting
churches which are Church Planting Movements.
Let’s take a look at the characteristics of Church
Planting Movements and see what the Bible has
to say about them.
Abundant Gospel Sowing
2 Corinthians 9:6
“…whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
1 Thessalonians 1:8
“The Lord’s message rang out from you…”
All Peoples Will Be Reached
Psalms 67 “Let all the peoples praise you.”
Matthew 24:3, 14 “…and this gospel shall be preached to all
peoples.”
Revelation 5:9 “..you purchased men for God from every tribe…”
Revelation 7:9 “…a multitude that no one could count, from every
nation…”
Revelation 15:4 “All nations will come and worship before you.”
Psalm 96 “Ascribe to the Lord, O families of nations…”
God Will Do It
Philippians 1:6 “He who began…will do it.”
1 Peter 4:11 “…do it with the strength God provides.”
God’s Word
Acts 17:11 “…examined the Scriptures every day to see if…”
HOUSE CHURCHES
Acts 5:42 “…from house to house…”
Acts 8:3 “Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to
house…”
Acts 12:12 “…the house of Mary…where many people had
gathered…”
Romans 16:5 “Greet also the church that meets at their house.”
1 Corinthians 16:19 “…the church that meets at their house.”
Colossians 4:15 “…the church in her house.”
Philemon 2 “…the church that meets in your home.”
Lay Leadership
Psalm 119:97-100 “I have more insight than my teachers…for I obey…”
Jeremiah 1:7 “Do not say, ‘I am only a child…’”
Luke 8:39 “…so the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus…”
Acts 4:13 “…they were unschooled, ordinary men.”
1 Corinthians 1:26 “…not many were wise by human standards…”
2 Corinthians 3:4-5 “Not that we are competent in ourselves…”
1 Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young.”
1 Peter 2:9-10 “…you are a royal priesthood…”
1 Peter 4:10-11 “Each one should use whatever gift he has…”
Indigenous Leadership
2
Model, Equip, Watch & Leave
Timothy 2:2 “…entrust to reliable men…”
Titus
1:5 “…appoint elders in every town…
Multiple Church Leaders
1 Corinthians 12:7 “Now to each one…the Spirit is given for the common
good.
1 Corinthians 14:26 “…everyone has a hymn, or a word…a revelation…’”
Ephesians 4:11-16 “…some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some…”
Oikos Evangelism
- Community Implications to Evangelism
Acts 16:15 “…she and the members of her household were baptized.”
Acts 16:31 “…you will be saved—you and your household.”
Paradigm Shift
Habakkuk 1:5 “…you would not believe even if you were
told.”
Matt. 9:17 “…new wineskins”
Romans 12:1 “Be not conformed to this world…”
Jonah 1-4 -The reluctant missionary
Persecution and Suffering
Matthew 10:17-25 “A student is not above his teacher.”
2 Corinthians 11:23-29 “I have known hunger and thirst.”
1 Peter 4:12-13 “Do not be surprised [that] you are
suffering.”
Revelation 6:9-11 “How long [until] you avenge our blood?”
Revelation 12:10-12 “He is filled with fury, he knows his
time
is short.”
PRAYER
Psalms 2:8 “…ask of me and I will give you the ends of
the earth.”
Luke 5:16 “…Jesus often went off to a lonely place and
prayed.”
Luke 6:12 “…Jesus…spent the night praying to God…”
RAPID SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL
Acts 2:47 “…the Lord added to their number daily
those…being saved.”
Acts 19:20 “In this way the word of the Lord spread widely
and grew in power.”
Rapid Assimilation of New Believers
Acts 2:41 “Those who accepted his message were
baptized…that day.”
Acts8:26-39 “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”
Acts 16:5 “…the churches…grew daily in numbers.”
Acts 18:5 “…grew daily in numbers.”
Remove Obstacles
Luke 3:4-6 “…make straight the way of the Lord…”
The Man of Peace, Opening New Work
Luke 10:1-18 …when you enter a town…”
Unreached People Groups
Matthew 18:12-13 - Parable of the Lost Sheep
Romans 15:20-23 “…my ambition to preach where Christ
was
not known”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
1. Start with prayer – know the mind of God and join Him in His
work
2. Everything is grounded in Scripture
3. Focus is on households, not individuals
4. Make Disciples, not converts
5. Teach obedience-based discipleship, not knowledge-based
6. Plan your work and work your plan – be intentional in
Evangelism and Church Planting
CRITICAL ELEMENT
7. Start with the Man of Peace or an existing relationship that will
permit a Discovery Bible Study or Witness
8. Form new believers into minimum practice groups that will
become churches
9. Develop a group DNA of urgent obedience that will reach out
to “ALL”
10. Develop a group DNA of rapidly reproducing disciples,
leaders, groups and churches
11. Training is done “On the Job”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
12. Keep all things reproducible by local leaders
13. Use unpaid local leaders to start new groups
14. Authority of Scripture and the Holy Spirit are all that is needed
to start
15. Do not require cultural suicide
16. Persecution is part of being a Christian
17. Discipleship and Training are continuous and primarily done
through mentoring
18. Model, Equip, Watch, and Leave
COUNTER INTUITIVE
1. Go slow at first to go fast later… focus on few to win may
2. Stay only where Jesus has prepared someone’s heart to hear
and obey
3. Do not focus on personal evangelism… focus on evangelizing
the whole community through families
4. Start with creation not Christ
5. Disciple people to conversion… not vice versa
6. A novice insider will produce more fruit than a highly trained
outsider
COUNTER INTUITIVE
7. Prepare to spend a long time making strong disciples, but
anticipate miracle accelerations
8. The best time for a church to plant a new church is when it is
brand new
9. Focus on discipling ordinary people not developing
”Professional” Christians
10. Expect the hardest places to yield the greatest result
11. Small for-profit project often yield much higher long term
access to resistant areas than free services
9. Train,
Coach,
Mentor,
watch and
Leave
1. Identify
Community
2. Pray for
Community
8. Identify
Natural Local
Leader(S)
Baptize, believing
families, Plant a
Church
3. Do
Community
Profile
/People group
7. Share Testimony &
Stories.
Start Discovery Bible
study
6. Create
Relationship
Through
service
4. Send Spies
5. Identify
Person/
Family of
Peace
CHURCH GROWTH TYPES
People are inspired
and saved
Elephant Type Church
•Big
• Lots of Programs
• Holy Atmosphere (“church-like”)
・Stained glass
・Choir
・Good preaching
Slow to Multiply
•Fertile four time a year
•One baby per pregnancy (22 month gestation period)
•Sexual Maturity … 18 Years
Indispensable
Need to grow
One Pair of Elephants
One Pair of Elephants
…The family grows from 2 to 3
Each
5,500 kg
Total
16,500 kg
Rabbit Type Church
•Small Group Oriented
•Scripture is Primary Source of all Teaching
Rabbits are small,
Multiply Rapidly
Rabbits
• Practically continuously fertile
• Average of 7 babies per pregnancy
(1 month gestation period)
• Sexual Maturity… 4 months
… 3 years… Two Rabbits
In
become…
Each
1 kg
Total
476,000,000
kg
476 Million
SPECK
S – Is there a Sin to avoid or confess?
P – Is there a promise, a prayer, or praise in this
passage?
E – Is there an example to follow (or not follow)?
C – Is there a command to obey?
K – Is there knowledge that I need to retain?
What are we going to do with what we have learned
TODAY?
Text
John 3:16-17
What do you
understand?
How can you
Obey?
How can you
teach others to
Obey?
John 3:16 -17
"For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world
through him.
Slide 11
By
Pastor Shodankeh Johnson
INTRODUCTION
THE PRESENT SCENARIO
Encountering the World of Islam
1/5 of humanity bows to Islam’s Allah
20% of the world are Muslims
60% of the worlds poor are Muslim
80% of the world’s refugees are Muslim
GO TO
MATTHEW 28:16-20
People
who hate you
People who will want to kill you
Those we love and fear
People who don’t love you
People who are different from you
Go refers to change of heart rather than
just moving
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT CHURCH PLANTING
You will not find “Church Planting Movements”
mentioned anywhere in the Bible. Yet, the first
century world was swirling with new converts and
multiplying indigenous churches planting
churches which are Church Planting Movements.
Let’s take a look at the characteristics of Church
Planting Movements and see what the Bible has
to say about them.
Abundant Gospel Sowing
2 Corinthians 9:6
“…whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
1 Thessalonians 1:8
“The Lord’s message rang out from you…”
All Peoples Will Be Reached
Psalms 67 “Let all the peoples praise you.”
Matthew 24:3, 14 “…and this gospel shall be preached to all
peoples.”
Revelation 5:9 “..you purchased men for God from every tribe…”
Revelation 7:9 “…a multitude that no one could count, from every
nation…”
Revelation 15:4 “All nations will come and worship before you.”
Psalm 96 “Ascribe to the Lord, O families of nations…”
God Will Do It
Philippians 1:6 “He who began…will do it.”
1 Peter 4:11 “…do it with the strength God provides.”
God’s Word
Acts 17:11 “…examined the Scriptures every day to see if…”
HOUSE CHURCHES
Acts 5:42 “…from house to house…”
Acts 8:3 “Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to
house…”
Acts 12:12 “…the house of Mary…where many people had
gathered…”
Romans 16:5 “Greet also the church that meets at their house.”
1 Corinthians 16:19 “…the church that meets at their house.”
Colossians 4:15 “…the church in her house.”
Philemon 2 “…the church that meets in your home.”
Lay Leadership
Psalm 119:97-100 “I have more insight than my teachers…for I obey…”
Jeremiah 1:7 “Do not say, ‘I am only a child…’”
Luke 8:39 “…so the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus…”
Acts 4:13 “…they were unschooled, ordinary men.”
1 Corinthians 1:26 “…not many were wise by human standards…”
2 Corinthians 3:4-5 “Not that we are competent in ourselves…”
1 Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young.”
1 Peter 2:9-10 “…you are a royal priesthood…”
1 Peter 4:10-11 “Each one should use whatever gift he has…”
Indigenous Leadership
2
Model, Equip, Watch & Leave
Timothy 2:2 “…entrust to reliable men…”
Titus
1:5 “…appoint elders in every town…
Multiple Church Leaders
1 Corinthians 12:7 “Now to each one…the Spirit is given for the common
good.
1 Corinthians 14:26 “…everyone has a hymn, or a word…a revelation…’”
Ephesians 4:11-16 “…some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some…”
Oikos Evangelism
- Community Implications to Evangelism
Acts 16:15 “…she and the members of her household were baptized.”
Acts 16:31 “…you will be saved—you and your household.”
Paradigm Shift
Habakkuk 1:5 “…you would not believe even if you were
told.”
Matt. 9:17 “…new wineskins”
Romans 12:1 “Be not conformed to this world…”
Jonah 1-4 -The reluctant missionary
Persecution and Suffering
Matthew 10:17-25 “A student is not above his teacher.”
2 Corinthians 11:23-29 “I have known hunger and thirst.”
1 Peter 4:12-13 “Do not be surprised [that] you are
suffering.”
Revelation 6:9-11 “How long [until] you avenge our blood?”
Revelation 12:10-12 “He is filled with fury, he knows his
time
is short.”
PRAYER
Psalms 2:8 “…ask of me and I will give you the ends of
the earth.”
Luke 5:16 “…Jesus often went off to a lonely place and
prayed.”
Luke 6:12 “…Jesus…spent the night praying to God…”
RAPID SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL
Acts 2:47 “…the Lord added to their number daily
those…being saved.”
Acts 19:20 “In this way the word of the Lord spread widely
and grew in power.”
Rapid Assimilation of New Believers
Acts 2:41 “Those who accepted his message were
baptized…that day.”
Acts8:26-39 “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”
Acts 16:5 “…the churches…grew daily in numbers.”
Acts 18:5 “…grew daily in numbers.”
Remove Obstacles
Luke 3:4-6 “…make straight the way of the Lord…”
The Man of Peace, Opening New Work
Luke 10:1-18 …when you enter a town…”
Unreached People Groups
Matthew 18:12-13 - Parable of the Lost Sheep
Romans 15:20-23 “…my ambition to preach where Christ
was
not known”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
1. Start with prayer – know the mind of God and join Him in His
work
2. Everything is grounded in Scripture
3. Focus is on households, not individuals
4. Make Disciples, not converts
5. Teach obedience-based discipleship, not knowledge-based
6. Plan your work and work your plan – be intentional in
Evangelism and Church Planting
CRITICAL ELEMENT
7. Start with the Man of Peace or an existing relationship that will
permit a Discovery Bible Study or Witness
8. Form new believers into minimum practice groups that will
become churches
9. Develop a group DNA of urgent obedience that will reach out
to “ALL”
10. Develop a group DNA of rapidly reproducing disciples,
leaders, groups and churches
11. Training is done “On the Job”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
12. Keep all things reproducible by local leaders
13. Use unpaid local leaders to start new groups
14. Authority of Scripture and the Holy Spirit are all that is needed
to start
15. Do not require cultural suicide
16. Persecution is part of being a Christian
17. Discipleship and Training are continuous and primarily done
through mentoring
18. Model, Equip, Watch, and Leave
COUNTER INTUITIVE
1. Go slow at first to go fast later… focus on few to win may
2. Stay only where Jesus has prepared someone’s heart to hear
and obey
3. Do not focus on personal evangelism… focus on evangelizing
the whole community through families
4. Start with creation not Christ
5. Disciple people to conversion… not vice versa
6. A novice insider will produce more fruit than a highly trained
outsider
COUNTER INTUITIVE
7. Prepare to spend a long time making strong disciples, but
anticipate miracle accelerations
8. The best time for a church to plant a new church is when it is
brand new
9. Focus on discipling ordinary people not developing
”Professional” Christians
10. Expect the hardest places to yield the greatest result
11. Small for-profit project often yield much higher long term
access to resistant areas than free services
9. Train,
Coach,
Mentor,
watch and
Leave
1. Identify
Community
2. Pray for
Community
8. Identify
Natural Local
Leader(S)
Baptize, believing
families, Plant a
Church
3. Do
Community
Profile
/People group
7. Share Testimony &
Stories.
Start Discovery Bible
study
6. Create
Relationship
Through
service
4. Send Spies
5. Identify
Person/
Family of
Peace
CHURCH GROWTH TYPES
People are inspired
and saved
Elephant Type Church
•Big
• Lots of Programs
• Holy Atmosphere (“church-like”)
・Stained glass
・Choir
・Good preaching
Slow to Multiply
•Fertile four time a year
•One baby per pregnancy (22 month gestation period)
•Sexual Maturity … 18 Years
Indispensable
Need to grow
One Pair of Elephants
One Pair of Elephants
…The family grows from 2 to 3
Each
5,500 kg
Total
16,500 kg
Rabbit Type Church
•Small Group Oriented
•Scripture is Primary Source of all Teaching
Rabbits are small,
Multiply Rapidly
Rabbits
• Practically continuously fertile
• Average of 7 babies per pregnancy
(1 month gestation period)
• Sexual Maturity… 4 months
… 3 years… Two Rabbits
In
become…
Each
1 kg
Total
476,000,000
kg
476 Million
SPECK
S – Is there a Sin to avoid or confess?
P – Is there a promise, a prayer, or praise in this
passage?
E – Is there an example to follow (or not follow)?
C – Is there a command to obey?
K – Is there knowledge that I need to retain?
What are we going to do with what we have learned
TODAY?
Text
John 3:16-17
What do you
understand?
How can you
Obey?
How can you
teach others to
Obey?
John 3:16 -17
"For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world
through him.
Slide 12
By
Pastor Shodankeh Johnson
INTRODUCTION
THE PRESENT SCENARIO
Encountering the World of Islam
1/5 of humanity bows to Islam’s Allah
20% of the world are Muslims
60% of the worlds poor are Muslim
80% of the world’s refugees are Muslim
GO TO
MATTHEW 28:16-20
People
who hate you
People who will want to kill you
Those we love and fear
People who don’t love you
People who are different from you
Go refers to change of heart rather than
just moving
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT CHURCH PLANTING
You will not find “Church Planting Movements”
mentioned anywhere in the Bible. Yet, the first
century world was swirling with new converts and
multiplying indigenous churches planting
churches which are Church Planting Movements.
Let’s take a look at the characteristics of Church
Planting Movements and see what the Bible has
to say about them.
Abundant Gospel Sowing
2 Corinthians 9:6
“…whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
1 Thessalonians 1:8
“The Lord’s message rang out from you…”
All Peoples Will Be Reached
Psalms 67 “Let all the peoples praise you.”
Matthew 24:3, 14 “…and this gospel shall be preached to all
peoples.”
Revelation 5:9 “..you purchased men for God from every tribe…”
Revelation 7:9 “…a multitude that no one could count, from every
nation…”
Revelation 15:4 “All nations will come and worship before you.”
Psalm 96 “Ascribe to the Lord, O families of nations…”
God Will Do It
Philippians 1:6 “He who began…will do it.”
1 Peter 4:11 “…do it with the strength God provides.”
God’s Word
Acts 17:11 “…examined the Scriptures every day to see if…”
HOUSE CHURCHES
Acts 5:42 “…from house to house…”
Acts 8:3 “Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to
house…”
Acts 12:12 “…the house of Mary…where many people had
gathered…”
Romans 16:5 “Greet also the church that meets at their house.”
1 Corinthians 16:19 “…the church that meets at their house.”
Colossians 4:15 “…the church in her house.”
Philemon 2 “…the church that meets in your home.”
Lay Leadership
Psalm 119:97-100 “I have more insight than my teachers…for I obey…”
Jeremiah 1:7 “Do not say, ‘I am only a child…’”
Luke 8:39 “…so the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus…”
Acts 4:13 “…they were unschooled, ordinary men.”
1 Corinthians 1:26 “…not many were wise by human standards…”
2 Corinthians 3:4-5 “Not that we are competent in ourselves…”
1 Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young.”
1 Peter 2:9-10 “…you are a royal priesthood…”
1 Peter 4:10-11 “Each one should use whatever gift he has…”
Indigenous Leadership
2
Model, Equip, Watch & Leave
Timothy 2:2 “…entrust to reliable men…”
Titus
1:5 “…appoint elders in every town…
Multiple Church Leaders
1 Corinthians 12:7 “Now to each one…the Spirit is given for the common
good.
1 Corinthians 14:26 “…everyone has a hymn, or a word…a revelation…’”
Ephesians 4:11-16 “…some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some…”
Oikos Evangelism
- Community Implications to Evangelism
Acts 16:15 “…she and the members of her household were baptized.”
Acts 16:31 “…you will be saved—you and your household.”
Paradigm Shift
Habakkuk 1:5 “…you would not believe even if you were
told.”
Matt. 9:17 “…new wineskins”
Romans 12:1 “Be not conformed to this world…”
Jonah 1-4 -The reluctant missionary
Persecution and Suffering
Matthew 10:17-25 “A student is not above his teacher.”
2 Corinthians 11:23-29 “I have known hunger and thirst.”
1 Peter 4:12-13 “Do not be surprised [that] you are
suffering.”
Revelation 6:9-11 “How long [until] you avenge our blood?”
Revelation 12:10-12 “He is filled with fury, he knows his
time
is short.”
PRAYER
Psalms 2:8 “…ask of me and I will give you the ends of
the earth.”
Luke 5:16 “…Jesus often went off to a lonely place and
prayed.”
Luke 6:12 “…Jesus…spent the night praying to God…”
RAPID SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL
Acts 2:47 “…the Lord added to their number daily
those…being saved.”
Acts 19:20 “In this way the word of the Lord spread widely
and grew in power.”
Rapid Assimilation of New Believers
Acts 2:41 “Those who accepted his message were
baptized…that day.”
Acts8:26-39 “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”
Acts 16:5 “…the churches…grew daily in numbers.”
Acts 18:5 “…grew daily in numbers.”
Remove Obstacles
Luke 3:4-6 “…make straight the way of the Lord…”
The Man of Peace, Opening New Work
Luke 10:1-18 …when you enter a town…”
Unreached People Groups
Matthew 18:12-13 - Parable of the Lost Sheep
Romans 15:20-23 “…my ambition to preach where Christ
was
not known”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
1. Start with prayer – know the mind of God and join Him in His
work
2. Everything is grounded in Scripture
3. Focus is on households, not individuals
4. Make Disciples, not converts
5. Teach obedience-based discipleship, not knowledge-based
6. Plan your work and work your plan – be intentional in
Evangelism and Church Planting
CRITICAL ELEMENT
7. Start with the Man of Peace or an existing relationship that will
permit a Discovery Bible Study or Witness
8. Form new believers into minimum practice groups that will
become churches
9. Develop a group DNA of urgent obedience that will reach out
to “ALL”
10. Develop a group DNA of rapidly reproducing disciples,
leaders, groups and churches
11. Training is done “On the Job”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
12. Keep all things reproducible by local leaders
13. Use unpaid local leaders to start new groups
14. Authority of Scripture and the Holy Spirit are all that is needed
to start
15. Do not require cultural suicide
16. Persecution is part of being a Christian
17. Discipleship and Training are continuous and primarily done
through mentoring
18. Model, Equip, Watch, and Leave
COUNTER INTUITIVE
1. Go slow at first to go fast later… focus on few to win may
2. Stay only where Jesus has prepared someone’s heart to hear
and obey
3. Do not focus on personal evangelism… focus on evangelizing
the whole community through families
4. Start with creation not Christ
5. Disciple people to conversion… not vice versa
6. A novice insider will produce more fruit than a highly trained
outsider
COUNTER INTUITIVE
7. Prepare to spend a long time making strong disciples, but
anticipate miracle accelerations
8. The best time for a church to plant a new church is when it is
brand new
9. Focus on discipling ordinary people not developing
”Professional” Christians
10. Expect the hardest places to yield the greatest result
11. Small for-profit project often yield much higher long term
access to resistant areas than free services
9. Train,
Coach,
Mentor,
watch and
Leave
1. Identify
Community
2. Pray for
Community
8. Identify
Natural Local
Leader(S)
Baptize, believing
families, Plant a
Church
3. Do
Community
Profile
/People group
7. Share Testimony &
Stories.
Start Discovery Bible
study
6. Create
Relationship
Through
service
4. Send Spies
5. Identify
Person/
Family of
Peace
CHURCH GROWTH TYPES
People are inspired
and saved
Elephant Type Church
•Big
• Lots of Programs
• Holy Atmosphere (“church-like”)
・Stained glass
・Choir
・Good preaching
Slow to Multiply
•Fertile four time a year
•One baby per pregnancy (22 month gestation period)
•Sexual Maturity … 18 Years
Indispensable
Need to grow
One Pair of Elephants
One Pair of Elephants
…The family grows from 2 to 3
Each
5,500 kg
Total
16,500 kg
Rabbit Type Church
•Small Group Oriented
•Scripture is Primary Source of all Teaching
Rabbits are small,
Multiply Rapidly
Rabbits
• Practically continuously fertile
• Average of 7 babies per pregnancy
(1 month gestation period)
• Sexual Maturity… 4 months
… 3 years… Two Rabbits
In
become…
Each
1 kg
Total
476,000,000
kg
476 Million
SPECK
S – Is there a Sin to avoid or confess?
P – Is there a promise, a prayer, or praise in this
passage?
E – Is there an example to follow (or not follow)?
C – Is there a command to obey?
K – Is there knowledge that I need to retain?
What are we going to do with what we have learned
TODAY?
Text
John 3:16-17
What do you
understand?
How can you
Obey?
How can you
teach others to
Obey?
John 3:16 -17
"For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world
through him.
Slide 13
By
Pastor Shodankeh Johnson
INTRODUCTION
THE PRESENT SCENARIO
Encountering the World of Islam
1/5 of humanity bows to Islam’s Allah
20% of the world are Muslims
60% of the worlds poor are Muslim
80% of the world’s refugees are Muslim
GO TO
MATTHEW 28:16-20
People
who hate you
People who will want to kill you
Those we love and fear
People who don’t love you
People who are different from you
Go refers to change of heart rather than
just moving
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT CHURCH PLANTING
You will not find “Church Planting Movements”
mentioned anywhere in the Bible. Yet, the first
century world was swirling with new converts and
multiplying indigenous churches planting
churches which are Church Planting Movements.
Let’s take a look at the characteristics of Church
Planting Movements and see what the Bible has
to say about them.
Abundant Gospel Sowing
2 Corinthians 9:6
“…whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
1 Thessalonians 1:8
“The Lord’s message rang out from you…”
All Peoples Will Be Reached
Psalms 67 “Let all the peoples praise you.”
Matthew 24:3, 14 “…and this gospel shall be preached to all
peoples.”
Revelation 5:9 “..you purchased men for God from every tribe…”
Revelation 7:9 “…a multitude that no one could count, from every
nation…”
Revelation 15:4 “All nations will come and worship before you.”
Psalm 96 “Ascribe to the Lord, O families of nations…”
God Will Do It
Philippians 1:6 “He who began…will do it.”
1 Peter 4:11 “…do it with the strength God provides.”
God’s Word
Acts 17:11 “…examined the Scriptures every day to see if…”
HOUSE CHURCHES
Acts 5:42 “…from house to house…”
Acts 8:3 “Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to
house…”
Acts 12:12 “…the house of Mary…where many people had
gathered…”
Romans 16:5 “Greet also the church that meets at their house.”
1 Corinthians 16:19 “…the church that meets at their house.”
Colossians 4:15 “…the church in her house.”
Philemon 2 “…the church that meets in your home.”
Lay Leadership
Psalm 119:97-100 “I have more insight than my teachers…for I obey…”
Jeremiah 1:7 “Do not say, ‘I am only a child…’”
Luke 8:39 “…so the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus…”
Acts 4:13 “…they were unschooled, ordinary men.”
1 Corinthians 1:26 “…not many were wise by human standards…”
2 Corinthians 3:4-5 “Not that we are competent in ourselves…”
1 Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young.”
1 Peter 2:9-10 “…you are a royal priesthood…”
1 Peter 4:10-11 “Each one should use whatever gift he has…”
Indigenous Leadership
2
Model, Equip, Watch & Leave
Timothy 2:2 “…entrust to reliable men…”
Titus
1:5 “…appoint elders in every town…
Multiple Church Leaders
1 Corinthians 12:7 “Now to each one…the Spirit is given for the common
good.
1 Corinthians 14:26 “…everyone has a hymn, or a word…a revelation…’”
Ephesians 4:11-16 “…some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some…”
Oikos Evangelism
- Community Implications to Evangelism
Acts 16:15 “…she and the members of her household were baptized.”
Acts 16:31 “…you will be saved—you and your household.”
Paradigm Shift
Habakkuk 1:5 “…you would not believe even if you were
told.”
Matt. 9:17 “…new wineskins”
Romans 12:1 “Be not conformed to this world…”
Jonah 1-4 -The reluctant missionary
Persecution and Suffering
Matthew 10:17-25 “A student is not above his teacher.”
2 Corinthians 11:23-29 “I have known hunger and thirst.”
1 Peter 4:12-13 “Do not be surprised [that] you are
suffering.”
Revelation 6:9-11 “How long [until] you avenge our blood?”
Revelation 12:10-12 “He is filled with fury, he knows his
time
is short.”
PRAYER
Psalms 2:8 “…ask of me and I will give you the ends of
the earth.”
Luke 5:16 “…Jesus often went off to a lonely place and
prayed.”
Luke 6:12 “…Jesus…spent the night praying to God…”
RAPID SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL
Acts 2:47 “…the Lord added to their number daily
those…being saved.”
Acts 19:20 “In this way the word of the Lord spread widely
and grew in power.”
Rapid Assimilation of New Believers
Acts 2:41 “Those who accepted his message were
baptized…that day.”
Acts8:26-39 “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”
Acts 16:5 “…the churches…grew daily in numbers.”
Acts 18:5 “…grew daily in numbers.”
Remove Obstacles
Luke 3:4-6 “…make straight the way of the Lord…”
The Man of Peace, Opening New Work
Luke 10:1-18 …when you enter a town…”
Unreached People Groups
Matthew 18:12-13 - Parable of the Lost Sheep
Romans 15:20-23 “…my ambition to preach where Christ
was
not known”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
1. Start with prayer – know the mind of God and join Him in His
work
2. Everything is grounded in Scripture
3. Focus is on households, not individuals
4. Make Disciples, not converts
5. Teach obedience-based discipleship, not knowledge-based
6. Plan your work and work your plan – be intentional in
Evangelism and Church Planting
CRITICAL ELEMENT
7. Start with the Man of Peace or an existing relationship that will
permit a Discovery Bible Study or Witness
8. Form new believers into minimum practice groups that will
become churches
9. Develop a group DNA of urgent obedience that will reach out
to “ALL”
10. Develop a group DNA of rapidly reproducing disciples,
leaders, groups and churches
11. Training is done “On the Job”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
12. Keep all things reproducible by local leaders
13. Use unpaid local leaders to start new groups
14. Authority of Scripture and the Holy Spirit are all that is needed
to start
15. Do not require cultural suicide
16. Persecution is part of being a Christian
17. Discipleship and Training are continuous and primarily done
through mentoring
18. Model, Equip, Watch, and Leave
COUNTER INTUITIVE
1. Go slow at first to go fast later… focus on few to win may
2. Stay only where Jesus has prepared someone’s heart to hear
and obey
3. Do not focus on personal evangelism… focus on evangelizing
the whole community through families
4. Start with creation not Christ
5. Disciple people to conversion… not vice versa
6. A novice insider will produce more fruit than a highly trained
outsider
COUNTER INTUITIVE
7. Prepare to spend a long time making strong disciples, but
anticipate miracle accelerations
8. The best time for a church to plant a new church is when it is
brand new
9. Focus on discipling ordinary people not developing
”Professional” Christians
10. Expect the hardest places to yield the greatest result
11. Small for-profit project often yield much higher long term
access to resistant areas than free services
9. Train,
Coach,
Mentor,
watch and
Leave
1. Identify
Community
2. Pray for
Community
8. Identify
Natural Local
Leader(S)
Baptize, believing
families, Plant a
Church
3. Do
Community
Profile
/People group
7. Share Testimony &
Stories.
Start Discovery Bible
study
6. Create
Relationship
Through
service
4. Send Spies
5. Identify
Person/
Family of
Peace
CHURCH GROWTH TYPES
People are inspired
and saved
Elephant Type Church
•Big
• Lots of Programs
• Holy Atmosphere (“church-like”)
・Stained glass
・Choir
・Good preaching
Slow to Multiply
•Fertile four time a year
•One baby per pregnancy (22 month gestation period)
•Sexual Maturity … 18 Years
Indispensable
Need to grow
One Pair of Elephants
One Pair of Elephants
…The family grows from 2 to 3
Each
5,500 kg
Total
16,500 kg
Rabbit Type Church
•Small Group Oriented
•Scripture is Primary Source of all Teaching
Rabbits are small,
Multiply Rapidly
Rabbits
• Practically continuously fertile
• Average of 7 babies per pregnancy
(1 month gestation period)
• Sexual Maturity… 4 months
… 3 years… Two Rabbits
In
become…
Each
1 kg
Total
476,000,000
kg
476 Million
SPECK
S – Is there a Sin to avoid or confess?
P – Is there a promise, a prayer, or praise in this
passage?
E – Is there an example to follow (or not follow)?
C – Is there a command to obey?
K – Is there knowledge that I need to retain?
What are we going to do with what we have learned
TODAY?
Text
John 3:16-17
What do you
understand?
How can you
Obey?
How can you
teach others to
Obey?
John 3:16 -17
"For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world
through him.
Slide 14
By
Pastor Shodankeh Johnson
INTRODUCTION
THE PRESENT SCENARIO
Encountering the World of Islam
1/5 of humanity bows to Islam’s Allah
20% of the world are Muslims
60% of the worlds poor are Muslim
80% of the world’s refugees are Muslim
GO TO
MATTHEW 28:16-20
People
who hate you
People who will want to kill you
Those we love and fear
People who don’t love you
People who are different from you
Go refers to change of heart rather than
just moving
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT CHURCH PLANTING
You will not find “Church Planting Movements”
mentioned anywhere in the Bible. Yet, the first
century world was swirling with new converts and
multiplying indigenous churches planting
churches which are Church Planting Movements.
Let’s take a look at the characteristics of Church
Planting Movements and see what the Bible has
to say about them.
Abundant Gospel Sowing
2 Corinthians 9:6
“…whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
1 Thessalonians 1:8
“The Lord’s message rang out from you…”
All Peoples Will Be Reached
Psalms 67 “Let all the peoples praise you.”
Matthew 24:3, 14 “…and this gospel shall be preached to all
peoples.”
Revelation 5:9 “..you purchased men for God from every tribe…”
Revelation 7:9 “…a multitude that no one could count, from every
nation…”
Revelation 15:4 “All nations will come and worship before you.”
Psalm 96 “Ascribe to the Lord, O families of nations…”
God Will Do It
Philippians 1:6 “He who began…will do it.”
1 Peter 4:11 “…do it with the strength God provides.”
God’s Word
Acts 17:11 “…examined the Scriptures every day to see if…”
HOUSE CHURCHES
Acts 5:42 “…from house to house…”
Acts 8:3 “Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to
house…”
Acts 12:12 “…the house of Mary…where many people had
gathered…”
Romans 16:5 “Greet also the church that meets at their house.”
1 Corinthians 16:19 “…the church that meets at their house.”
Colossians 4:15 “…the church in her house.”
Philemon 2 “…the church that meets in your home.”
Lay Leadership
Psalm 119:97-100 “I have more insight than my teachers…for I obey…”
Jeremiah 1:7 “Do not say, ‘I am only a child…’”
Luke 8:39 “…so the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus…”
Acts 4:13 “…they were unschooled, ordinary men.”
1 Corinthians 1:26 “…not many were wise by human standards…”
2 Corinthians 3:4-5 “Not that we are competent in ourselves…”
1 Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young.”
1 Peter 2:9-10 “…you are a royal priesthood…”
1 Peter 4:10-11 “Each one should use whatever gift he has…”
Indigenous Leadership
2
Model, Equip, Watch & Leave
Timothy 2:2 “…entrust to reliable men…”
Titus
1:5 “…appoint elders in every town…
Multiple Church Leaders
1 Corinthians 12:7 “Now to each one…the Spirit is given for the common
good.
1 Corinthians 14:26 “…everyone has a hymn, or a word…a revelation…’”
Ephesians 4:11-16 “…some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some…”
Oikos Evangelism
- Community Implications to Evangelism
Acts 16:15 “…she and the members of her household were baptized.”
Acts 16:31 “…you will be saved—you and your household.”
Paradigm Shift
Habakkuk 1:5 “…you would not believe even if you were
told.”
Matt. 9:17 “…new wineskins”
Romans 12:1 “Be not conformed to this world…”
Jonah 1-4 -The reluctant missionary
Persecution and Suffering
Matthew 10:17-25 “A student is not above his teacher.”
2 Corinthians 11:23-29 “I have known hunger and thirst.”
1 Peter 4:12-13 “Do not be surprised [that] you are
suffering.”
Revelation 6:9-11 “How long [until] you avenge our blood?”
Revelation 12:10-12 “He is filled with fury, he knows his
time
is short.”
PRAYER
Psalms 2:8 “…ask of me and I will give you the ends of
the earth.”
Luke 5:16 “…Jesus often went off to a lonely place and
prayed.”
Luke 6:12 “…Jesus…spent the night praying to God…”
RAPID SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL
Acts 2:47 “…the Lord added to their number daily
those…being saved.”
Acts 19:20 “In this way the word of the Lord spread widely
and grew in power.”
Rapid Assimilation of New Believers
Acts 2:41 “Those who accepted his message were
baptized…that day.”
Acts8:26-39 “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”
Acts 16:5 “…the churches…grew daily in numbers.”
Acts 18:5 “…grew daily in numbers.”
Remove Obstacles
Luke 3:4-6 “…make straight the way of the Lord…”
The Man of Peace, Opening New Work
Luke 10:1-18 …when you enter a town…”
Unreached People Groups
Matthew 18:12-13 - Parable of the Lost Sheep
Romans 15:20-23 “…my ambition to preach where Christ
was
not known”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
1. Start with prayer – know the mind of God and join Him in His
work
2. Everything is grounded in Scripture
3. Focus is on households, not individuals
4. Make Disciples, not converts
5. Teach obedience-based discipleship, not knowledge-based
6. Plan your work and work your plan – be intentional in
Evangelism and Church Planting
CRITICAL ELEMENT
7. Start with the Man of Peace or an existing relationship that will
permit a Discovery Bible Study or Witness
8. Form new believers into minimum practice groups that will
become churches
9. Develop a group DNA of urgent obedience that will reach out
to “ALL”
10. Develop a group DNA of rapidly reproducing disciples,
leaders, groups and churches
11. Training is done “On the Job”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
12. Keep all things reproducible by local leaders
13. Use unpaid local leaders to start new groups
14. Authority of Scripture and the Holy Spirit are all that is needed
to start
15. Do not require cultural suicide
16. Persecution is part of being a Christian
17. Discipleship and Training are continuous and primarily done
through mentoring
18. Model, Equip, Watch, and Leave
COUNTER INTUITIVE
1. Go slow at first to go fast later… focus on few to win may
2. Stay only where Jesus has prepared someone’s heart to hear
and obey
3. Do not focus on personal evangelism… focus on evangelizing
the whole community through families
4. Start with creation not Christ
5. Disciple people to conversion… not vice versa
6. A novice insider will produce more fruit than a highly trained
outsider
COUNTER INTUITIVE
7. Prepare to spend a long time making strong disciples, but
anticipate miracle accelerations
8. The best time for a church to plant a new church is when it is
brand new
9. Focus on discipling ordinary people not developing
”Professional” Christians
10. Expect the hardest places to yield the greatest result
11. Small for-profit project often yield much higher long term
access to resistant areas than free services
9. Train,
Coach,
Mentor,
watch and
Leave
1. Identify
Community
2. Pray for
Community
8. Identify
Natural Local
Leader(S)
Baptize, believing
families, Plant a
Church
3. Do
Community
Profile
/People group
7. Share Testimony &
Stories.
Start Discovery Bible
study
6. Create
Relationship
Through
service
4. Send Spies
5. Identify
Person/
Family of
Peace
CHURCH GROWTH TYPES
People are inspired
and saved
Elephant Type Church
•Big
• Lots of Programs
• Holy Atmosphere (“church-like”)
・Stained glass
・Choir
・Good preaching
Slow to Multiply
•Fertile four time a year
•One baby per pregnancy (22 month gestation period)
•Sexual Maturity … 18 Years
Indispensable
Need to grow
One Pair of Elephants
One Pair of Elephants
…The family grows from 2 to 3
Each
5,500 kg
Total
16,500 kg
Rabbit Type Church
•Small Group Oriented
•Scripture is Primary Source of all Teaching
Rabbits are small,
Multiply Rapidly
Rabbits
• Practically continuously fertile
• Average of 7 babies per pregnancy
(1 month gestation period)
• Sexual Maturity… 4 months
… 3 years… Two Rabbits
In
become…
Each
1 kg
Total
476,000,000
kg
476 Million
SPECK
S – Is there a Sin to avoid or confess?
P – Is there a promise, a prayer, or praise in this
passage?
E – Is there an example to follow (or not follow)?
C – Is there a command to obey?
K – Is there knowledge that I need to retain?
What are we going to do with what we have learned
TODAY?
Text
John 3:16-17
What do you
understand?
How can you
Obey?
How can you
teach others to
Obey?
John 3:16 -17
"For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world
through him.
Slide 15
By
Pastor Shodankeh Johnson
INTRODUCTION
THE PRESENT SCENARIO
Encountering the World of Islam
1/5 of humanity bows to Islam’s Allah
20% of the world are Muslims
60% of the worlds poor are Muslim
80% of the world’s refugees are Muslim
GO TO
MATTHEW 28:16-20
People
who hate you
People who will want to kill you
Those we love and fear
People who don’t love you
People who are different from you
Go refers to change of heart rather than
just moving
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT CHURCH PLANTING
You will not find “Church Planting Movements”
mentioned anywhere in the Bible. Yet, the first
century world was swirling with new converts and
multiplying indigenous churches planting
churches which are Church Planting Movements.
Let’s take a look at the characteristics of Church
Planting Movements and see what the Bible has
to say about them.
Abundant Gospel Sowing
2 Corinthians 9:6
“…whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
1 Thessalonians 1:8
“The Lord’s message rang out from you…”
All Peoples Will Be Reached
Psalms 67 “Let all the peoples praise you.”
Matthew 24:3, 14 “…and this gospel shall be preached to all
peoples.”
Revelation 5:9 “..you purchased men for God from every tribe…”
Revelation 7:9 “…a multitude that no one could count, from every
nation…”
Revelation 15:4 “All nations will come and worship before you.”
Psalm 96 “Ascribe to the Lord, O families of nations…”
God Will Do It
Philippians 1:6 “He who began…will do it.”
1 Peter 4:11 “…do it with the strength God provides.”
God’s Word
Acts 17:11 “…examined the Scriptures every day to see if…”
HOUSE CHURCHES
Acts 5:42 “…from house to house…”
Acts 8:3 “Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to
house…”
Acts 12:12 “…the house of Mary…where many people had
gathered…”
Romans 16:5 “Greet also the church that meets at their house.”
1 Corinthians 16:19 “…the church that meets at their house.”
Colossians 4:15 “…the church in her house.”
Philemon 2 “…the church that meets in your home.”
Lay Leadership
Psalm 119:97-100 “I have more insight than my teachers…for I obey…”
Jeremiah 1:7 “Do not say, ‘I am only a child…’”
Luke 8:39 “…so the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus…”
Acts 4:13 “…they were unschooled, ordinary men.”
1 Corinthians 1:26 “…not many were wise by human standards…”
2 Corinthians 3:4-5 “Not that we are competent in ourselves…”
1 Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young.”
1 Peter 2:9-10 “…you are a royal priesthood…”
1 Peter 4:10-11 “Each one should use whatever gift he has…”
Indigenous Leadership
2
Model, Equip, Watch & Leave
Timothy 2:2 “…entrust to reliable men…”
Titus
1:5 “…appoint elders in every town…
Multiple Church Leaders
1 Corinthians 12:7 “Now to each one…the Spirit is given for the common
good.
1 Corinthians 14:26 “…everyone has a hymn, or a word…a revelation…’”
Ephesians 4:11-16 “…some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some…”
Oikos Evangelism
- Community Implications to Evangelism
Acts 16:15 “…she and the members of her household were baptized.”
Acts 16:31 “…you will be saved—you and your household.”
Paradigm Shift
Habakkuk 1:5 “…you would not believe even if you were
told.”
Matt. 9:17 “…new wineskins”
Romans 12:1 “Be not conformed to this world…”
Jonah 1-4 -The reluctant missionary
Persecution and Suffering
Matthew 10:17-25 “A student is not above his teacher.”
2 Corinthians 11:23-29 “I have known hunger and thirst.”
1 Peter 4:12-13 “Do not be surprised [that] you are
suffering.”
Revelation 6:9-11 “How long [until] you avenge our blood?”
Revelation 12:10-12 “He is filled with fury, he knows his
time
is short.”
PRAYER
Psalms 2:8 “…ask of me and I will give you the ends of
the earth.”
Luke 5:16 “…Jesus often went off to a lonely place and
prayed.”
Luke 6:12 “…Jesus…spent the night praying to God…”
RAPID SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL
Acts 2:47 “…the Lord added to their number daily
those…being saved.”
Acts 19:20 “In this way the word of the Lord spread widely
and grew in power.”
Rapid Assimilation of New Believers
Acts 2:41 “Those who accepted his message were
baptized…that day.”
Acts8:26-39 “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”
Acts 16:5 “…the churches…grew daily in numbers.”
Acts 18:5 “…grew daily in numbers.”
Remove Obstacles
Luke 3:4-6 “…make straight the way of the Lord…”
The Man of Peace, Opening New Work
Luke 10:1-18 …when you enter a town…”
Unreached People Groups
Matthew 18:12-13 - Parable of the Lost Sheep
Romans 15:20-23 “…my ambition to preach where Christ
was
not known”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
1. Start with prayer – know the mind of God and join Him in His
work
2. Everything is grounded in Scripture
3. Focus is on households, not individuals
4. Make Disciples, not converts
5. Teach obedience-based discipleship, not knowledge-based
6. Plan your work and work your plan – be intentional in
Evangelism and Church Planting
CRITICAL ELEMENT
7. Start with the Man of Peace or an existing relationship that will
permit a Discovery Bible Study or Witness
8. Form new believers into minimum practice groups that will
become churches
9. Develop a group DNA of urgent obedience that will reach out
to “ALL”
10. Develop a group DNA of rapidly reproducing disciples,
leaders, groups and churches
11. Training is done “On the Job”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
12. Keep all things reproducible by local leaders
13. Use unpaid local leaders to start new groups
14. Authority of Scripture and the Holy Spirit are all that is needed
to start
15. Do not require cultural suicide
16. Persecution is part of being a Christian
17. Discipleship and Training are continuous and primarily done
through mentoring
18. Model, Equip, Watch, and Leave
COUNTER INTUITIVE
1. Go slow at first to go fast later… focus on few to win may
2. Stay only where Jesus has prepared someone’s heart to hear
and obey
3. Do not focus on personal evangelism… focus on evangelizing
the whole community through families
4. Start with creation not Christ
5. Disciple people to conversion… not vice versa
6. A novice insider will produce more fruit than a highly trained
outsider
COUNTER INTUITIVE
7. Prepare to spend a long time making strong disciples, but
anticipate miracle accelerations
8. The best time for a church to plant a new church is when it is
brand new
9. Focus on discipling ordinary people not developing
”Professional” Christians
10. Expect the hardest places to yield the greatest result
11. Small for-profit project often yield much higher long term
access to resistant areas than free services
9. Train,
Coach,
Mentor,
watch and
Leave
1. Identify
Community
2. Pray for
Community
8. Identify
Natural Local
Leader(S)
Baptize, believing
families, Plant a
Church
3. Do
Community
Profile
/People group
7. Share Testimony &
Stories.
Start Discovery Bible
study
6. Create
Relationship
Through
service
4. Send Spies
5. Identify
Person/
Family of
Peace
CHURCH GROWTH TYPES
People are inspired
and saved
Elephant Type Church
•Big
• Lots of Programs
• Holy Atmosphere (“church-like”)
・Stained glass
・Choir
・Good preaching
Slow to Multiply
•Fertile four time a year
•One baby per pregnancy (22 month gestation period)
•Sexual Maturity … 18 Years
Indispensable
Need to grow
One Pair of Elephants
One Pair of Elephants
…The family grows from 2 to 3
Each
5,500 kg
Total
16,500 kg
Rabbit Type Church
•Small Group Oriented
•Scripture is Primary Source of all Teaching
Rabbits are small,
Multiply Rapidly
Rabbits
• Practically continuously fertile
• Average of 7 babies per pregnancy
(1 month gestation period)
• Sexual Maturity… 4 months
… 3 years… Two Rabbits
In
become…
Each
1 kg
Total
476,000,000
kg
476 Million
SPECK
S – Is there a Sin to avoid or confess?
P – Is there a promise, a prayer, or praise in this
passage?
E – Is there an example to follow (or not follow)?
C – Is there a command to obey?
K – Is there knowledge that I need to retain?
What are we going to do with what we have learned
TODAY?
Text
John 3:16-17
What do you
understand?
How can you
Obey?
How can you
teach others to
Obey?
John 3:16 -17
"For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world
through him.
Slide 16
By
Pastor Shodankeh Johnson
INTRODUCTION
THE PRESENT SCENARIO
Encountering the World of Islam
1/5 of humanity bows to Islam’s Allah
20% of the world are Muslims
60% of the worlds poor are Muslim
80% of the world’s refugees are Muslim
GO TO
MATTHEW 28:16-20
People
who hate you
People who will want to kill you
Those we love and fear
People who don’t love you
People who are different from you
Go refers to change of heart rather than
just moving
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT CHURCH PLANTING
You will not find “Church Planting Movements”
mentioned anywhere in the Bible. Yet, the first
century world was swirling with new converts and
multiplying indigenous churches planting
churches which are Church Planting Movements.
Let’s take a look at the characteristics of Church
Planting Movements and see what the Bible has
to say about them.
Abundant Gospel Sowing
2 Corinthians 9:6
“…whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
1 Thessalonians 1:8
“The Lord’s message rang out from you…”
All Peoples Will Be Reached
Psalms 67 “Let all the peoples praise you.”
Matthew 24:3, 14 “…and this gospel shall be preached to all
peoples.”
Revelation 5:9 “..you purchased men for God from every tribe…”
Revelation 7:9 “…a multitude that no one could count, from every
nation…”
Revelation 15:4 “All nations will come and worship before you.”
Psalm 96 “Ascribe to the Lord, O families of nations…”
God Will Do It
Philippians 1:6 “He who began…will do it.”
1 Peter 4:11 “…do it with the strength God provides.”
God’s Word
Acts 17:11 “…examined the Scriptures every day to see if…”
HOUSE CHURCHES
Acts 5:42 “…from house to house…”
Acts 8:3 “Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to
house…”
Acts 12:12 “…the house of Mary…where many people had
gathered…”
Romans 16:5 “Greet also the church that meets at their house.”
1 Corinthians 16:19 “…the church that meets at their house.”
Colossians 4:15 “…the church in her house.”
Philemon 2 “…the church that meets in your home.”
Lay Leadership
Psalm 119:97-100 “I have more insight than my teachers…for I obey…”
Jeremiah 1:7 “Do not say, ‘I am only a child…’”
Luke 8:39 “…so the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus…”
Acts 4:13 “…they were unschooled, ordinary men.”
1 Corinthians 1:26 “…not many were wise by human standards…”
2 Corinthians 3:4-5 “Not that we are competent in ourselves…”
1 Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young.”
1 Peter 2:9-10 “…you are a royal priesthood…”
1 Peter 4:10-11 “Each one should use whatever gift he has…”
Indigenous Leadership
2
Model, Equip, Watch & Leave
Timothy 2:2 “…entrust to reliable men…”
Titus
1:5 “…appoint elders in every town…
Multiple Church Leaders
1 Corinthians 12:7 “Now to each one…the Spirit is given for the common
good.
1 Corinthians 14:26 “…everyone has a hymn, or a word…a revelation…’”
Ephesians 4:11-16 “…some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some…”
Oikos Evangelism
- Community Implications to Evangelism
Acts 16:15 “…she and the members of her household were baptized.”
Acts 16:31 “…you will be saved—you and your household.”
Paradigm Shift
Habakkuk 1:5 “…you would not believe even if you were
told.”
Matt. 9:17 “…new wineskins”
Romans 12:1 “Be not conformed to this world…”
Jonah 1-4 -The reluctant missionary
Persecution and Suffering
Matthew 10:17-25 “A student is not above his teacher.”
2 Corinthians 11:23-29 “I have known hunger and thirst.”
1 Peter 4:12-13 “Do not be surprised [that] you are
suffering.”
Revelation 6:9-11 “How long [until] you avenge our blood?”
Revelation 12:10-12 “He is filled with fury, he knows his
time
is short.”
PRAYER
Psalms 2:8 “…ask of me and I will give you the ends of
the earth.”
Luke 5:16 “…Jesus often went off to a lonely place and
prayed.”
Luke 6:12 “…Jesus…spent the night praying to God…”
RAPID SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL
Acts 2:47 “…the Lord added to their number daily
those…being saved.”
Acts 19:20 “In this way the word of the Lord spread widely
and grew in power.”
Rapid Assimilation of New Believers
Acts 2:41 “Those who accepted his message were
baptized…that day.”
Acts8:26-39 “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”
Acts 16:5 “…the churches…grew daily in numbers.”
Acts 18:5 “…grew daily in numbers.”
Remove Obstacles
Luke 3:4-6 “…make straight the way of the Lord…”
The Man of Peace, Opening New Work
Luke 10:1-18 …when you enter a town…”
Unreached People Groups
Matthew 18:12-13 - Parable of the Lost Sheep
Romans 15:20-23 “…my ambition to preach where Christ
was
not known”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
1. Start with prayer – know the mind of God and join Him in His
work
2. Everything is grounded in Scripture
3. Focus is on households, not individuals
4. Make Disciples, not converts
5. Teach obedience-based discipleship, not knowledge-based
6. Plan your work and work your plan – be intentional in
Evangelism and Church Planting
CRITICAL ELEMENT
7. Start with the Man of Peace or an existing relationship that will
permit a Discovery Bible Study or Witness
8. Form new believers into minimum practice groups that will
become churches
9. Develop a group DNA of urgent obedience that will reach out
to “ALL”
10. Develop a group DNA of rapidly reproducing disciples,
leaders, groups and churches
11. Training is done “On the Job”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
12. Keep all things reproducible by local leaders
13. Use unpaid local leaders to start new groups
14. Authority of Scripture and the Holy Spirit are all that is needed
to start
15. Do not require cultural suicide
16. Persecution is part of being a Christian
17. Discipleship and Training are continuous and primarily done
through mentoring
18. Model, Equip, Watch, and Leave
COUNTER INTUITIVE
1. Go slow at first to go fast later… focus on few to win may
2. Stay only where Jesus has prepared someone’s heart to hear
and obey
3. Do not focus on personal evangelism… focus on evangelizing
the whole community through families
4. Start with creation not Christ
5. Disciple people to conversion… not vice versa
6. A novice insider will produce more fruit than a highly trained
outsider
COUNTER INTUITIVE
7. Prepare to spend a long time making strong disciples, but
anticipate miracle accelerations
8. The best time for a church to plant a new church is when it is
brand new
9. Focus on discipling ordinary people not developing
”Professional” Christians
10. Expect the hardest places to yield the greatest result
11. Small for-profit project often yield much higher long term
access to resistant areas than free services
9. Train,
Coach,
Mentor,
watch and
Leave
1. Identify
Community
2. Pray for
Community
8. Identify
Natural Local
Leader(S)
Baptize, believing
families, Plant a
Church
3. Do
Community
Profile
/People group
7. Share Testimony &
Stories.
Start Discovery Bible
study
6. Create
Relationship
Through
service
4. Send Spies
5. Identify
Person/
Family of
Peace
CHURCH GROWTH TYPES
People are inspired
and saved
Elephant Type Church
•Big
• Lots of Programs
• Holy Atmosphere (“church-like”)
・Stained glass
・Choir
・Good preaching
Slow to Multiply
•Fertile four time a year
•One baby per pregnancy (22 month gestation period)
•Sexual Maturity … 18 Years
Indispensable
Need to grow
One Pair of Elephants
One Pair of Elephants
…The family grows from 2 to 3
Each
5,500 kg
Total
16,500 kg
Rabbit Type Church
•Small Group Oriented
•Scripture is Primary Source of all Teaching
Rabbits are small,
Multiply Rapidly
Rabbits
• Practically continuously fertile
• Average of 7 babies per pregnancy
(1 month gestation period)
• Sexual Maturity… 4 months
… 3 years… Two Rabbits
In
become…
Each
1 kg
Total
476,000,000
kg
476 Million
SPECK
S – Is there a Sin to avoid or confess?
P – Is there a promise, a prayer, or praise in this
passage?
E – Is there an example to follow (or not follow)?
C – Is there a command to obey?
K – Is there knowledge that I need to retain?
What are we going to do with what we have learned
TODAY?
Text
John 3:16-17
What do you
understand?
How can you
Obey?
How can you
teach others to
Obey?
John 3:16 -17
"For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world
through him.
Slide 17
By
Pastor Shodankeh Johnson
INTRODUCTION
THE PRESENT SCENARIO
Encountering the World of Islam
1/5 of humanity bows to Islam’s Allah
20% of the world are Muslims
60% of the worlds poor are Muslim
80% of the world’s refugees are Muslim
GO TO
MATTHEW 28:16-20
People
who hate you
People who will want to kill you
Those we love and fear
People who don’t love you
People who are different from you
Go refers to change of heart rather than
just moving
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT CHURCH PLANTING
You will not find “Church Planting Movements”
mentioned anywhere in the Bible. Yet, the first
century world was swirling with new converts and
multiplying indigenous churches planting
churches which are Church Planting Movements.
Let’s take a look at the characteristics of Church
Planting Movements and see what the Bible has
to say about them.
Abundant Gospel Sowing
2 Corinthians 9:6
“…whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
1 Thessalonians 1:8
“The Lord’s message rang out from you…”
All Peoples Will Be Reached
Psalms 67 “Let all the peoples praise you.”
Matthew 24:3, 14 “…and this gospel shall be preached to all
peoples.”
Revelation 5:9 “..you purchased men for God from every tribe…”
Revelation 7:9 “…a multitude that no one could count, from every
nation…”
Revelation 15:4 “All nations will come and worship before you.”
Psalm 96 “Ascribe to the Lord, O families of nations…”
God Will Do It
Philippians 1:6 “He who began…will do it.”
1 Peter 4:11 “…do it with the strength God provides.”
God’s Word
Acts 17:11 “…examined the Scriptures every day to see if…”
HOUSE CHURCHES
Acts 5:42 “…from house to house…”
Acts 8:3 “Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to
house…”
Acts 12:12 “…the house of Mary…where many people had
gathered…”
Romans 16:5 “Greet also the church that meets at their house.”
1 Corinthians 16:19 “…the church that meets at their house.”
Colossians 4:15 “…the church in her house.”
Philemon 2 “…the church that meets in your home.”
Lay Leadership
Psalm 119:97-100 “I have more insight than my teachers…for I obey…”
Jeremiah 1:7 “Do not say, ‘I am only a child…’”
Luke 8:39 “…so the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus…”
Acts 4:13 “…they were unschooled, ordinary men.”
1 Corinthians 1:26 “…not many were wise by human standards…”
2 Corinthians 3:4-5 “Not that we are competent in ourselves…”
1 Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young.”
1 Peter 2:9-10 “…you are a royal priesthood…”
1 Peter 4:10-11 “Each one should use whatever gift he has…”
Indigenous Leadership
2
Model, Equip, Watch & Leave
Timothy 2:2 “…entrust to reliable men…”
Titus
1:5 “…appoint elders in every town…
Multiple Church Leaders
1 Corinthians 12:7 “Now to each one…the Spirit is given for the common
good.
1 Corinthians 14:26 “…everyone has a hymn, or a word…a revelation…’”
Ephesians 4:11-16 “…some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some…”
Oikos Evangelism
- Community Implications to Evangelism
Acts 16:15 “…she and the members of her household were baptized.”
Acts 16:31 “…you will be saved—you and your household.”
Paradigm Shift
Habakkuk 1:5 “…you would not believe even if you were
told.”
Matt. 9:17 “…new wineskins”
Romans 12:1 “Be not conformed to this world…”
Jonah 1-4 -The reluctant missionary
Persecution and Suffering
Matthew 10:17-25 “A student is not above his teacher.”
2 Corinthians 11:23-29 “I have known hunger and thirst.”
1 Peter 4:12-13 “Do not be surprised [that] you are
suffering.”
Revelation 6:9-11 “How long [until] you avenge our blood?”
Revelation 12:10-12 “He is filled with fury, he knows his
time
is short.”
PRAYER
Psalms 2:8 “…ask of me and I will give you the ends of
the earth.”
Luke 5:16 “…Jesus often went off to a lonely place and
prayed.”
Luke 6:12 “…Jesus…spent the night praying to God…”
RAPID SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL
Acts 2:47 “…the Lord added to their number daily
those…being saved.”
Acts 19:20 “In this way the word of the Lord spread widely
and grew in power.”
Rapid Assimilation of New Believers
Acts 2:41 “Those who accepted his message were
baptized…that day.”
Acts8:26-39 “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”
Acts 16:5 “…the churches…grew daily in numbers.”
Acts 18:5 “…grew daily in numbers.”
Remove Obstacles
Luke 3:4-6 “…make straight the way of the Lord…”
The Man of Peace, Opening New Work
Luke 10:1-18 …when you enter a town…”
Unreached People Groups
Matthew 18:12-13 - Parable of the Lost Sheep
Romans 15:20-23 “…my ambition to preach where Christ
was
not known”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
1. Start with prayer – know the mind of God and join Him in His
work
2. Everything is grounded in Scripture
3. Focus is on households, not individuals
4. Make Disciples, not converts
5. Teach obedience-based discipleship, not knowledge-based
6. Plan your work and work your plan – be intentional in
Evangelism and Church Planting
CRITICAL ELEMENT
7. Start with the Man of Peace or an existing relationship that will
permit a Discovery Bible Study or Witness
8. Form new believers into minimum practice groups that will
become churches
9. Develop a group DNA of urgent obedience that will reach out
to “ALL”
10. Develop a group DNA of rapidly reproducing disciples,
leaders, groups and churches
11. Training is done “On the Job”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
12. Keep all things reproducible by local leaders
13. Use unpaid local leaders to start new groups
14. Authority of Scripture and the Holy Spirit are all that is needed
to start
15. Do not require cultural suicide
16. Persecution is part of being a Christian
17. Discipleship and Training are continuous and primarily done
through mentoring
18. Model, Equip, Watch, and Leave
COUNTER INTUITIVE
1. Go slow at first to go fast later… focus on few to win may
2. Stay only where Jesus has prepared someone’s heart to hear
and obey
3. Do not focus on personal evangelism… focus on evangelizing
the whole community through families
4. Start with creation not Christ
5. Disciple people to conversion… not vice versa
6. A novice insider will produce more fruit than a highly trained
outsider
COUNTER INTUITIVE
7. Prepare to spend a long time making strong disciples, but
anticipate miracle accelerations
8. The best time for a church to plant a new church is when it is
brand new
9. Focus on discipling ordinary people not developing
”Professional” Christians
10. Expect the hardest places to yield the greatest result
11. Small for-profit project often yield much higher long term
access to resistant areas than free services
9. Train,
Coach,
Mentor,
watch and
Leave
1. Identify
Community
2. Pray for
Community
8. Identify
Natural Local
Leader(S)
Baptize, believing
families, Plant a
Church
3. Do
Community
Profile
/People group
7. Share Testimony &
Stories.
Start Discovery Bible
study
6. Create
Relationship
Through
service
4. Send Spies
5. Identify
Person/
Family of
Peace
CHURCH GROWTH TYPES
People are inspired
and saved
Elephant Type Church
•Big
• Lots of Programs
• Holy Atmosphere (“church-like”)
・Stained glass
・Choir
・Good preaching
Slow to Multiply
•Fertile four time a year
•One baby per pregnancy (22 month gestation period)
•Sexual Maturity … 18 Years
Indispensable
Need to grow
One Pair of Elephants
One Pair of Elephants
…The family grows from 2 to 3
Each
5,500 kg
Total
16,500 kg
Rabbit Type Church
•Small Group Oriented
•Scripture is Primary Source of all Teaching
Rabbits are small,
Multiply Rapidly
Rabbits
• Practically continuously fertile
• Average of 7 babies per pregnancy
(1 month gestation period)
• Sexual Maturity… 4 months
… 3 years… Two Rabbits
In
become…
Each
1 kg
Total
476,000,000
kg
476 Million
SPECK
S – Is there a Sin to avoid or confess?
P – Is there a promise, a prayer, or praise in this
passage?
E – Is there an example to follow (or not follow)?
C – Is there a command to obey?
K – Is there knowledge that I need to retain?
What are we going to do with what we have learned
TODAY?
Text
John 3:16-17
What do you
understand?
How can you
Obey?
How can you
teach others to
Obey?
John 3:16 -17
"For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world
through him.
Slide 18
By
Pastor Shodankeh Johnson
INTRODUCTION
THE PRESENT SCENARIO
Encountering the World of Islam
1/5 of humanity bows to Islam’s Allah
20% of the world are Muslims
60% of the worlds poor are Muslim
80% of the world’s refugees are Muslim
GO TO
MATTHEW 28:16-20
People
who hate you
People who will want to kill you
Those we love and fear
People who don’t love you
People who are different from you
Go refers to change of heart rather than
just moving
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT CHURCH PLANTING
You will not find “Church Planting Movements”
mentioned anywhere in the Bible. Yet, the first
century world was swirling with new converts and
multiplying indigenous churches planting
churches which are Church Planting Movements.
Let’s take a look at the characteristics of Church
Planting Movements and see what the Bible has
to say about them.
Abundant Gospel Sowing
2 Corinthians 9:6
“…whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
1 Thessalonians 1:8
“The Lord’s message rang out from you…”
All Peoples Will Be Reached
Psalms 67 “Let all the peoples praise you.”
Matthew 24:3, 14 “…and this gospel shall be preached to all
peoples.”
Revelation 5:9 “..you purchased men for God from every tribe…”
Revelation 7:9 “…a multitude that no one could count, from every
nation…”
Revelation 15:4 “All nations will come and worship before you.”
Psalm 96 “Ascribe to the Lord, O families of nations…”
God Will Do It
Philippians 1:6 “He who began…will do it.”
1 Peter 4:11 “…do it with the strength God provides.”
God’s Word
Acts 17:11 “…examined the Scriptures every day to see if…”
HOUSE CHURCHES
Acts 5:42 “…from house to house…”
Acts 8:3 “Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to
house…”
Acts 12:12 “…the house of Mary…where many people had
gathered…”
Romans 16:5 “Greet also the church that meets at their house.”
1 Corinthians 16:19 “…the church that meets at their house.”
Colossians 4:15 “…the church in her house.”
Philemon 2 “…the church that meets in your home.”
Lay Leadership
Psalm 119:97-100 “I have more insight than my teachers…for I obey…”
Jeremiah 1:7 “Do not say, ‘I am only a child…’”
Luke 8:39 “…so the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus…”
Acts 4:13 “…they were unschooled, ordinary men.”
1 Corinthians 1:26 “…not many were wise by human standards…”
2 Corinthians 3:4-5 “Not that we are competent in ourselves…”
1 Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young.”
1 Peter 2:9-10 “…you are a royal priesthood…”
1 Peter 4:10-11 “Each one should use whatever gift he has…”
Indigenous Leadership
2
Model, Equip, Watch & Leave
Timothy 2:2 “…entrust to reliable men…”
Titus
1:5 “…appoint elders in every town…
Multiple Church Leaders
1 Corinthians 12:7 “Now to each one…the Spirit is given for the common
good.
1 Corinthians 14:26 “…everyone has a hymn, or a word…a revelation…’”
Ephesians 4:11-16 “…some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some…”
Oikos Evangelism
- Community Implications to Evangelism
Acts 16:15 “…she and the members of her household were baptized.”
Acts 16:31 “…you will be saved—you and your household.”
Paradigm Shift
Habakkuk 1:5 “…you would not believe even if you were
told.”
Matt. 9:17 “…new wineskins”
Romans 12:1 “Be not conformed to this world…”
Jonah 1-4 -The reluctant missionary
Persecution and Suffering
Matthew 10:17-25 “A student is not above his teacher.”
2 Corinthians 11:23-29 “I have known hunger and thirst.”
1 Peter 4:12-13 “Do not be surprised [that] you are
suffering.”
Revelation 6:9-11 “How long [until] you avenge our blood?”
Revelation 12:10-12 “He is filled with fury, he knows his
time
is short.”
PRAYER
Psalms 2:8 “…ask of me and I will give you the ends of
the earth.”
Luke 5:16 “…Jesus often went off to a lonely place and
prayed.”
Luke 6:12 “…Jesus…spent the night praying to God…”
RAPID SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL
Acts 2:47 “…the Lord added to their number daily
those…being saved.”
Acts 19:20 “In this way the word of the Lord spread widely
and grew in power.”
Rapid Assimilation of New Believers
Acts 2:41 “Those who accepted his message were
baptized…that day.”
Acts8:26-39 “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”
Acts 16:5 “…the churches…grew daily in numbers.”
Acts 18:5 “…grew daily in numbers.”
Remove Obstacles
Luke 3:4-6 “…make straight the way of the Lord…”
The Man of Peace, Opening New Work
Luke 10:1-18 …when you enter a town…”
Unreached People Groups
Matthew 18:12-13 - Parable of the Lost Sheep
Romans 15:20-23 “…my ambition to preach where Christ
was
not known”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
1. Start with prayer – know the mind of God and join Him in His
work
2. Everything is grounded in Scripture
3. Focus is on households, not individuals
4. Make Disciples, not converts
5. Teach obedience-based discipleship, not knowledge-based
6. Plan your work and work your plan – be intentional in
Evangelism and Church Planting
CRITICAL ELEMENT
7. Start with the Man of Peace or an existing relationship that will
permit a Discovery Bible Study or Witness
8. Form new believers into minimum practice groups that will
become churches
9. Develop a group DNA of urgent obedience that will reach out
to “ALL”
10. Develop a group DNA of rapidly reproducing disciples,
leaders, groups and churches
11. Training is done “On the Job”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
12. Keep all things reproducible by local leaders
13. Use unpaid local leaders to start new groups
14. Authority of Scripture and the Holy Spirit are all that is needed
to start
15. Do not require cultural suicide
16. Persecution is part of being a Christian
17. Discipleship and Training are continuous and primarily done
through mentoring
18. Model, Equip, Watch, and Leave
COUNTER INTUITIVE
1. Go slow at first to go fast later… focus on few to win may
2. Stay only where Jesus has prepared someone’s heart to hear
and obey
3. Do not focus on personal evangelism… focus on evangelizing
the whole community through families
4. Start with creation not Christ
5. Disciple people to conversion… not vice versa
6. A novice insider will produce more fruit than a highly trained
outsider
COUNTER INTUITIVE
7. Prepare to spend a long time making strong disciples, but
anticipate miracle accelerations
8. The best time for a church to plant a new church is when it is
brand new
9. Focus on discipling ordinary people not developing
”Professional” Christians
10. Expect the hardest places to yield the greatest result
11. Small for-profit project often yield much higher long term
access to resistant areas than free services
9. Train,
Coach,
Mentor,
watch and
Leave
1. Identify
Community
2. Pray for
Community
8. Identify
Natural Local
Leader(S)
Baptize, believing
families, Plant a
Church
3. Do
Community
Profile
/People group
7. Share Testimony &
Stories.
Start Discovery Bible
study
6. Create
Relationship
Through
service
4. Send Spies
5. Identify
Person/
Family of
Peace
CHURCH GROWTH TYPES
People are inspired
and saved
Elephant Type Church
•Big
• Lots of Programs
• Holy Atmosphere (“church-like”)
・Stained glass
・Choir
・Good preaching
Slow to Multiply
•Fertile four time a year
•One baby per pregnancy (22 month gestation period)
•Sexual Maturity … 18 Years
Indispensable
Need to grow
One Pair of Elephants
One Pair of Elephants
…The family grows from 2 to 3
Each
5,500 kg
Total
16,500 kg
Rabbit Type Church
•Small Group Oriented
•Scripture is Primary Source of all Teaching
Rabbits are small,
Multiply Rapidly
Rabbits
• Practically continuously fertile
• Average of 7 babies per pregnancy
(1 month gestation period)
• Sexual Maturity… 4 months
… 3 years… Two Rabbits
In
become…
Each
1 kg
Total
476,000,000
kg
476 Million
SPECK
S – Is there a Sin to avoid or confess?
P – Is there a promise, a prayer, or praise in this
passage?
E – Is there an example to follow (or not follow)?
C – Is there a command to obey?
K – Is there knowledge that I need to retain?
What are we going to do with what we have learned
TODAY?
Text
John 3:16-17
What do you
understand?
How can you
Obey?
How can you
teach others to
Obey?
John 3:16 -17
"For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world
through him.
Slide 19
By
Pastor Shodankeh Johnson
INTRODUCTION
THE PRESENT SCENARIO
Encountering the World of Islam
1/5 of humanity bows to Islam’s Allah
20% of the world are Muslims
60% of the worlds poor are Muslim
80% of the world’s refugees are Muslim
GO TO
MATTHEW 28:16-20
People
who hate you
People who will want to kill you
Those we love and fear
People who don’t love you
People who are different from you
Go refers to change of heart rather than
just moving
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT CHURCH PLANTING
You will not find “Church Planting Movements”
mentioned anywhere in the Bible. Yet, the first
century world was swirling with new converts and
multiplying indigenous churches planting
churches which are Church Planting Movements.
Let’s take a look at the characteristics of Church
Planting Movements and see what the Bible has
to say about them.
Abundant Gospel Sowing
2 Corinthians 9:6
“…whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
1 Thessalonians 1:8
“The Lord’s message rang out from you…”
All Peoples Will Be Reached
Psalms 67 “Let all the peoples praise you.”
Matthew 24:3, 14 “…and this gospel shall be preached to all
peoples.”
Revelation 5:9 “..you purchased men for God from every tribe…”
Revelation 7:9 “…a multitude that no one could count, from every
nation…”
Revelation 15:4 “All nations will come and worship before you.”
Psalm 96 “Ascribe to the Lord, O families of nations…”
God Will Do It
Philippians 1:6 “He who began…will do it.”
1 Peter 4:11 “…do it with the strength God provides.”
God’s Word
Acts 17:11 “…examined the Scriptures every day to see if…”
HOUSE CHURCHES
Acts 5:42 “…from house to house…”
Acts 8:3 “Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to
house…”
Acts 12:12 “…the house of Mary…where many people had
gathered…”
Romans 16:5 “Greet also the church that meets at their house.”
1 Corinthians 16:19 “…the church that meets at their house.”
Colossians 4:15 “…the church in her house.”
Philemon 2 “…the church that meets in your home.”
Lay Leadership
Psalm 119:97-100 “I have more insight than my teachers…for I obey…”
Jeremiah 1:7 “Do not say, ‘I am only a child…’”
Luke 8:39 “…so the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus…”
Acts 4:13 “…they were unschooled, ordinary men.”
1 Corinthians 1:26 “…not many were wise by human standards…”
2 Corinthians 3:4-5 “Not that we are competent in ourselves…”
1 Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young.”
1 Peter 2:9-10 “…you are a royal priesthood…”
1 Peter 4:10-11 “Each one should use whatever gift he has…”
Indigenous Leadership
2
Model, Equip, Watch & Leave
Timothy 2:2 “…entrust to reliable men…”
Titus
1:5 “…appoint elders in every town…
Multiple Church Leaders
1 Corinthians 12:7 “Now to each one…the Spirit is given for the common
good.
1 Corinthians 14:26 “…everyone has a hymn, or a word…a revelation…’”
Ephesians 4:11-16 “…some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some…”
Oikos Evangelism
- Community Implications to Evangelism
Acts 16:15 “…she and the members of her household were baptized.”
Acts 16:31 “…you will be saved—you and your household.”
Paradigm Shift
Habakkuk 1:5 “…you would not believe even if you were
told.”
Matt. 9:17 “…new wineskins”
Romans 12:1 “Be not conformed to this world…”
Jonah 1-4 -The reluctant missionary
Persecution and Suffering
Matthew 10:17-25 “A student is not above his teacher.”
2 Corinthians 11:23-29 “I have known hunger and thirst.”
1 Peter 4:12-13 “Do not be surprised [that] you are
suffering.”
Revelation 6:9-11 “How long [until] you avenge our blood?”
Revelation 12:10-12 “He is filled with fury, he knows his
time
is short.”
PRAYER
Psalms 2:8 “…ask of me and I will give you the ends of
the earth.”
Luke 5:16 “…Jesus often went off to a lonely place and
prayed.”
Luke 6:12 “…Jesus…spent the night praying to God…”
RAPID SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL
Acts 2:47 “…the Lord added to their number daily
those…being saved.”
Acts 19:20 “In this way the word of the Lord spread widely
and grew in power.”
Rapid Assimilation of New Believers
Acts 2:41 “Those who accepted his message were
baptized…that day.”
Acts8:26-39 “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”
Acts 16:5 “…the churches…grew daily in numbers.”
Acts 18:5 “…grew daily in numbers.”
Remove Obstacles
Luke 3:4-6 “…make straight the way of the Lord…”
The Man of Peace, Opening New Work
Luke 10:1-18 …when you enter a town…”
Unreached People Groups
Matthew 18:12-13 - Parable of the Lost Sheep
Romans 15:20-23 “…my ambition to preach where Christ
was
not known”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
1. Start with prayer – know the mind of God and join Him in His
work
2. Everything is grounded in Scripture
3. Focus is on households, not individuals
4. Make Disciples, not converts
5. Teach obedience-based discipleship, not knowledge-based
6. Plan your work and work your plan – be intentional in
Evangelism and Church Planting
CRITICAL ELEMENT
7. Start with the Man of Peace or an existing relationship that will
permit a Discovery Bible Study or Witness
8. Form new believers into minimum practice groups that will
become churches
9. Develop a group DNA of urgent obedience that will reach out
to “ALL”
10. Develop a group DNA of rapidly reproducing disciples,
leaders, groups and churches
11. Training is done “On the Job”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
12. Keep all things reproducible by local leaders
13. Use unpaid local leaders to start new groups
14. Authority of Scripture and the Holy Spirit are all that is needed
to start
15. Do not require cultural suicide
16. Persecution is part of being a Christian
17. Discipleship and Training are continuous and primarily done
through mentoring
18. Model, Equip, Watch, and Leave
COUNTER INTUITIVE
1. Go slow at first to go fast later… focus on few to win may
2. Stay only where Jesus has prepared someone’s heart to hear
and obey
3. Do not focus on personal evangelism… focus on evangelizing
the whole community through families
4. Start with creation not Christ
5. Disciple people to conversion… not vice versa
6. A novice insider will produce more fruit than a highly trained
outsider
COUNTER INTUITIVE
7. Prepare to spend a long time making strong disciples, but
anticipate miracle accelerations
8. The best time for a church to plant a new church is when it is
brand new
9. Focus on discipling ordinary people not developing
”Professional” Christians
10. Expect the hardest places to yield the greatest result
11. Small for-profit project often yield much higher long term
access to resistant areas than free services
9. Train,
Coach,
Mentor,
watch and
Leave
1. Identify
Community
2. Pray for
Community
8. Identify
Natural Local
Leader(S)
Baptize, believing
families, Plant a
Church
3. Do
Community
Profile
/People group
7. Share Testimony &
Stories.
Start Discovery Bible
study
6. Create
Relationship
Through
service
4. Send Spies
5. Identify
Person/
Family of
Peace
CHURCH GROWTH TYPES
People are inspired
and saved
Elephant Type Church
•Big
• Lots of Programs
• Holy Atmosphere (“church-like”)
・Stained glass
・Choir
・Good preaching
Slow to Multiply
•Fertile four time a year
•One baby per pregnancy (22 month gestation period)
•Sexual Maturity … 18 Years
Indispensable
Need to grow
One Pair of Elephants
One Pair of Elephants
…The family grows from 2 to 3
Each
5,500 kg
Total
16,500 kg
Rabbit Type Church
•Small Group Oriented
•Scripture is Primary Source of all Teaching
Rabbits are small,
Multiply Rapidly
Rabbits
• Practically continuously fertile
• Average of 7 babies per pregnancy
(1 month gestation period)
• Sexual Maturity… 4 months
… 3 years… Two Rabbits
In
become…
Each
1 kg
Total
476,000,000
kg
476 Million
SPECK
S – Is there a Sin to avoid or confess?
P – Is there a promise, a prayer, or praise in this
passage?
E – Is there an example to follow (or not follow)?
C – Is there a command to obey?
K – Is there knowledge that I need to retain?
What are we going to do with what we have learned
TODAY?
Text
John 3:16-17
What do you
understand?
How can you
Obey?
How can you
teach others to
Obey?
John 3:16 -17
"For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world
through him.
Slide 20
By
Pastor Shodankeh Johnson
INTRODUCTION
THE PRESENT SCENARIO
Encountering the World of Islam
1/5 of humanity bows to Islam’s Allah
20% of the world are Muslims
60% of the worlds poor are Muslim
80% of the world’s refugees are Muslim
GO TO
MATTHEW 28:16-20
People
who hate you
People who will want to kill you
Those we love and fear
People who don’t love you
People who are different from you
Go refers to change of heart rather than
just moving
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT CHURCH PLANTING
You will not find “Church Planting Movements”
mentioned anywhere in the Bible. Yet, the first
century world was swirling with new converts and
multiplying indigenous churches planting
churches which are Church Planting Movements.
Let’s take a look at the characteristics of Church
Planting Movements and see what the Bible has
to say about them.
Abundant Gospel Sowing
2 Corinthians 9:6
“…whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
1 Thessalonians 1:8
“The Lord’s message rang out from you…”
All Peoples Will Be Reached
Psalms 67 “Let all the peoples praise you.”
Matthew 24:3, 14 “…and this gospel shall be preached to all
peoples.”
Revelation 5:9 “..you purchased men for God from every tribe…”
Revelation 7:9 “…a multitude that no one could count, from every
nation…”
Revelation 15:4 “All nations will come and worship before you.”
Psalm 96 “Ascribe to the Lord, O families of nations…”
God Will Do It
Philippians 1:6 “He who began…will do it.”
1 Peter 4:11 “…do it with the strength God provides.”
God’s Word
Acts 17:11 “…examined the Scriptures every day to see if…”
HOUSE CHURCHES
Acts 5:42 “…from house to house…”
Acts 8:3 “Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to
house…”
Acts 12:12 “…the house of Mary…where many people had
gathered…”
Romans 16:5 “Greet also the church that meets at their house.”
1 Corinthians 16:19 “…the church that meets at their house.”
Colossians 4:15 “…the church in her house.”
Philemon 2 “…the church that meets in your home.”
Lay Leadership
Psalm 119:97-100 “I have more insight than my teachers…for I obey…”
Jeremiah 1:7 “Do not say, ‘I am only a child…’”
Luke 8:39 “…so the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus…”
Acts 4:13 “…they were unschooled, ordinary men.”
1 Corinthians 1:26 “…not many were wise by human standards…”
2 Corinthians 3:4-5 “Not that we are competent in ourselves…”
1 Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young.”
1 Peter 2:9-10 “…you are a royal priesthood…”
1 Peter 4:10-11 “Each one should use whatever gift he has…”
Indigenous Leadership
2
Model, Equip, Watch & Leave
Timothy 2:2 “…entrust to reliable men…”
Titus
1:5 “…appoint elders in every town…
Multiple Church Leaders
1 Corinthians 12:7 “Now to each one…the Spirit is given for the common
good.
1 Corinthians 14:26 “…everyone has a hymn, or a word…a revelation…’”
Ephesians 4:11-16 “…some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some…”
Oikos Evangelism
- Community Implications to Evangelism
Acts 16:15 “…she and the members of her household were baptized.”
Acts 16:31 “…you will be saved—you and your household.”
Paradigm Shift
Habakkuk 1:5 “…you would not believe even if you were
told.”
Matt. 9:17 “…new wineskins”
Romans 12:1 “Be not conformed to this world…”
Jonah 1-4 -The reluctant missionary
Persecution and Suffering
Matthew 10:17-25 “A student is not above his teacher.”
2 Corinthians 11:23-29 “I have known hunger and thirst.”
1 Peter 4:12-13 “Do not be surprised [that] you are
suffering.”
Revelation 6:9-11 “How long [until] you avenge our blood?”
Revelation 12:10-12 “He is filled with fury, he knows his
time
is short.”
PRAYER
Psalms 2:8 “…ask of me and I will give you the ends of
the earth.”
Luke 5:16 “…Jesus often went off to a lonely place and
prayed.”
Luke 6:12 “…Jesus…spent the night praying to God…”
RAPID SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL
Acts 2:47 “…the Lord added to their number daily
those…being saved.”
Acts 19:20 “In this way the word of the Lord spread widely
and grew in power.”
Rapid Assimilation of New Believers
Acts 2:41 “Those who accepted his message were
baptized…that day.”
Acts8:26-39 “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”
Acts 16:5 “…the churches…grew daily in numbers.”
Acts 18:5 “…grew daily in numbers.”
Remove Obstacles
Luke 3:4-6 “…make straight the way of the Lord…”
The Man of Peace, Opening New Work
Luke 10:1-18 …when you enter a town…”
Unreached People Groups
Matthew 18:12-13 - Parable of the Lost Sheep
Romans 15:20-23 “…my ambition to preach where Christ
was
not known”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
1. Start with prayer – know the mind of God and join Him in His
work
2. Everything is grounded in Scripture
3. Focus is on households, not individuals
4. Make Disciples, not converts
5. Teach obedience-based discipleship, not knowledge-based
6. Plan your work and work your plan – be intentional in
Evangelism and Church Planting
CRITICAL ELEMENT
7. Start with the Man of Peace or an existing relationship that will
permit a Discovery Bible Study or Witness
8. Form new believers into minimum practice groups that will
become churches
9. Develop a group DNA of urgent obedience that will reach out
to “ALL”
10. Develop a group DNA of rapidly reproducing disciples,
leaders, groups and churches
11. Training is done “On the Job”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
12. Keep all things reproducible by local leaders
13. Use unpaid local leaders to start new groups
14. Authority of Scripture and the Holy Spirit are all that is needed
to start
15. Do not require cultural suicide
16. Persecution is part of being a Christian
17. Discipleship and Training are continuous and primarily done
through mentoring
18. Model, Equip, Watch, and Leave
COUNTER INTUITIVE
1. Go slow at first to go fast later… focus on few to win may
2. Stay only where Jesus has prepared someone’s heart to hear
and obey
3. Do not focus on personal evangelism… focus on evangelizing
the whole community through families
4. Start with creation not Christ
5. Disciple people to conversion… not vice versa
6. A novice insider will produce more fruit than a highly trained
outsider
COUNTER INTUITIVE
7. Prepare to spend a long time making strong disciples, but
anticipate miracle accelerations
8. The best time for a church to plant a new church is when it is
brand new
9. Focus on discipling ordinary people not developing
”Professional” Christians
10. Expect the hardest places to yield the greatest result
11. Small for-profit project often yield much higher long term
access to resistant areas than free services
9. Train,
Coach,
Mentor,
watch and
Leave
1. Identify
Community
2. Pray for
Community
8. Identify
Natural Local
Leader(S)
Baptize, believing
families, Plant a
Church
3. Do
Community
Profile
/People group
7. Share Testimony &
Stories.
Start Discovery Bible
study
6. Create
Relationship
Through
service
4. Send Spies
5. Identify
Person/
Family of
Peace
CHURCH GROWTH TYPES
People are inspired
and saved
Elephant Type Church
•Big
• Lots of Programs
• Holy Atmosphere (“church-like”)
・Stained glass
・Choir
・Good preaching
Slow to Multiply
•Fertile four time a year
•One baby per pregnancy (22 month gestation period)
•Sexual Maturity … 18 Years
Indispensable
Need to grow
One Pair of Elephants
One Pair of Elephants
…The family grows from 2 to 3
Each
5,500 kg
Total
16,500 kg
Rabbit Type Church
•Small Group Oriented
•Scripture is Primary Source of all Teaching
Rabbits are small,
Multiply Rapidly
Rabbits
• Practically continuously fertile
• Average of 7 babies per pregnancy
(1 month gestation period)
• Sexual Maturity… 4 months
… 3 years… Two Rabbits
In
become…
Each
1 kg
Total
476,000,000
kg
476 Million
SPECK
S – Is there a Sin to avoid or confess?
P – Is there a promise, a prayer, or praise in this
passage?
E – Is there an example to follow (or not follow)?
C – Is there a command to obey?
K – Is there knowledge that I need to retain?
What are we going to do with what we have learned
TODAY?
Text
John 3:16-17
What do you
understand?
How can you
Obey?
How can you
teach others to
Obey?
John 3:16 -17
"For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world
through him.
Slide 21
By
Pastor Shodankeh Johnson
INTRODUCTION
THE PRESENT SCENARIO
Encountering the World of Islam
1/5 of humanity bows to Islam’s Allah
20% of the world are Muslims
60% of the worlds poor are Muslim
80% of the world’s refugees are Muslim
GO TO
MATTHEW 28:16-20
People
who hate you
People who will want to kill you
Those we love and fear
People who don’t love you
People who are different from you
Go refers to change of heart rather than
just moving
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT CHURCH PLANTING
You will not find “Church Planting Movements”
mentioned anywhere in the Bible. Yet, the first
century world was swirling with new converts and
multiplying indigenous churches planting
churches which are Church Planting Movements.
Let’s take a look at the characteristics of Church
Planting Movements and see what the Bible has
to say about them.
Abundant Gospel Sowing
2 Corinthians 9:6
“…whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
1 Thessalonians 1:8
“The Lord’s message rang out from you…”
All Peoples Will Be Reached
Psalms 67 “Let all the peoples praise you.”
Matthew 24:3, 14 “…and this gospel shall be preached to all
peoples.”
Revelation 5:9 “..you purchased men for God from every tribe…”
Revelation 7:9 “…a multitude that no one could count, from every
nation…”
Revelation 15:4 “All nations will come and worship before you.”
Psalm 96 “Ascribe to the Lord, O families of nations…”
God Will Do It
Philippians 1:6 “He who began…will do it.”
1 Peter 4:11 “…do it with the strength God provides.”
God’s Word
Acts 17:11 “…examined the Scriptures every day to see if…”
HOUSE CHURCHES
Acts 5:42 “…from house to house…”
Acts 8:3 “Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to
house…”
Acts 12:12 “…the house of Mary…where many people had
gathered…”
Romans 16:5 “Greet also the church that meets at their house.”
1 Corinthians 16:19 “…the church that meets at their house.”
Colossians 4:15 “…the church in her house.”
Philemon 2 “…the church that meets in your home.”
Lay Leadership
Psalm 119:97-100 “I have more insight than my teachers…for I obey…”
Jeremiah 1:7 “Do not say, ‘I am only a child…’”
Luke 8:39 “…so the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus…”
Acts 4:13 “…they were unschooled, ordinary men.”
1 Corinthians 1:26 “…not many were wise by human standards…”
2 Corinthians 3:4-5 “Not that we are competent in ourselves…”
1 Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young.”
1 Peter 2:9-10 “…you are a royal priesthood…”
1 Peter 4:10-11 “Each one should use whatever gift he has…”
Indigenous Leadership
2
Model, Equip, Watch & Leave
Timothy 2:2 “…entrust to reliable men…”
Titus
1:5 “…appoint elders in every town…
Multiple Church Leaders
1 Corinthians 12:7 “Now to each one…the Spirit is given for the common
good.
1 Corinthians 14:26 “…everyone has a hymn, or a word…a revelation…’”
Ephesians 4:11-16 “…some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some…”
Oikos Evangelism
- Community Implications to Evangelism
Acts 16:15 “…she and the members of her household were baptized.”
Acts 16:31 “…you will be saved—you and your household.”
Paradigm Shift
Habakkuk 1:5 “…you would not believe even if you were
told.”
Matt. 9:17 “…new wineskins”
Romans 12:1 “Be not conformed to this world…”
Jonah 1-4 -The reluctant missionary
Persecution and Suffering
Matthew 10:17-25 “A student is not above his teacher.”
2 Corinthians 11:23-29 “I have known hunger and thirst.”
1 Peter 4:12-13 “Do not be surprised [that] you are
suffering.”
Revelation 6:9-11 “How long [until] you avenge our blood?”
Revelation 12:10-12 “He is filled with fury, he knows his
time
is short.”
PRAYER
Psalms 2:8 “…ask of me and I will give you the ends of
the earth.”
Luke 5:16 “…Jesus often went off to a lonely place and
prayed.”
Luke 6:12 “…Jesus…spent the night praying to God…”
RAPID SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL
Acts 2:47 “…the Lord added to their number daily
those…being saved.”
Acts 19:20 “In this way the word of the Lord spread widely
and grew in power.”
Rapid Assimilation of New Believers
Acts 2:41 “Those who accepted his message were
baptized…that day.”
Acts8:26-39 “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”
Acts 16:5 “…the churches…grew daily in numbers.”
Acts 18:5 “…grew daily in numbers.”
Remove Obstacles
Luke 3:4-6 “…make straight the way of the Lord…”
The Man of Peace, Opening New Work
Luke 10:1-18 …when you enter a town…”
Unreached People Groups
Matthew 18:12-13 - Parable of the Lost Sheep
Romans 15:20-23 “…my ambition to preach where Christ
was
not known”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
1. Start with prayer – know the mind of God and join Him in His
work
2. Everything is grounded in Scripture
3. Focus is on households, not individuals
4. Make Disciples, not converts
5. Teach obedience-based discipleship, not knowledge-based
6. Plan your work and work your plan – be intentional in
Evangelism and Church Planting
CRITICAL ELEMENT
7. Start with the Man of Peace or an existing relationship that will
permit a Discovery Bible Study or Witness
8. Form new believers into minimum practice groups that will
become churches
9. Develop a group DNA of urgent obedience that will reach out
to “ALL”
10. Develop a group DNA of rapidly reproducing disciples,
leaders, groups and churches
11. Training is done “On the Job”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
12. Keep all things reproducible by local leaders
13. Use unpaid local leaders to start new groups
14. Authority of Scripture and the Holy Spirit are all that is needed
to start
15. Do not require cultural suicide
16. Persecution is part of being a Christian
17. Discipleship and Training are continuous and primarily done
through mentoring
18. Model, Equip, Watch, and Leave
COUNTER INTUITIVE
1. Go slow at first to go fast later… focus on few to win may
2. Stay only where Jesus has prepared someone’s heart to hear
and obey
3. Do not focus on personal evangelism… focus on evangelizing
the whole community through families
4. Start with creation not Christ
5. Disciple people to conversion… not vice versa
6. A novice insider will produce more fruit than a highly trained
outsider
COUNTER INTUITIVE
7. Prepare to spend a long time making strong disciples, but
anticipate miracle accelerations
8. The best time for a church to plant a new church is when it is
brand new
9. Focus on discipling ordinary people not developing
”Professional” Christians
10. Expect the hardest places to yield the greatest result
11. Small for-profit project often yield much higher long term
access to resistant areas than free services
9. Train,
Coach,
Mentor,
watch and
Leave
1. Identify
Community
2. Pray for
Community
8. Identify
Natural Local
Leader(S)
Baptize, believing
families, Plant a
Church
3. Do
Community
Profile
/People group
7. Share Testimony &
Stories.
Start Discovery Bible
study
6. Create
Relationship
Through
service
4. Send Spies
5. Identify
Person/
Family of
Peace
CHURCH GROWTH TYPES
People are inspired
and saved
Elephant Type Church
•Big
• Lots of Programs
• Holy Atmosphere (“church-like”)
・Stained glass
・Choir
・Good preaching
Slow to Multiply
•Fertile four time a year
•One baby per pregnancy (22 month gestation period)
•Sexual Maturity … 18 Years
Indispensable
Need to grow
One Pair of Elephants
One Pair of Elephants
…The family grows from 2 to 3
Each
5,500 kg
Total
16,500 kg
Rabbit Type Church
•Small Group Oriented
•Scripture is Primary Source of all Teaching
Rabbits are small,
Multiply Rapidly
Rabbits
• Practically continuously fertile
• Average of 7 babies per pregnancy
(1 month gestation period)
• Sexual Maturity… 4 months
… 3 years… Two Rabbits
In
become…
Each
1 kg
Total
476,000,000
kg
476 Million
SPECK
S – Is there a Sin to avoid or confess?
P – Is there a promise, a prayer, or praise in this
passage?
E – Is there an example to follow (or not follow)?
C – Is there a command to obey?
K – Is there knowledge that I need to retain?
What are we going to do with what we have learned
TODAY?
Text
John 3:16-17
What do you
understand?
How can you
Obey?
How can you
teach others to
Obey?
John 3:16 -17
"For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world
through him.
Slide 22
By
Pastor Shodankeh Johnson
INTRODUCTION
THE PRESENT SCENARIO
Encountering the World of Islam
1/5 of humanity bows to Islam’s Allah
20% of the world are Muslims
60% of the worlds poor are Muslim
80% of the world’s refugees are Muslim
GO TO
MATTHEW 28:16-20
People
who hate you
People who will want to kill you
Those we love and fear
People who don’t love you
People who are different from you
Go refers to change of heart rather than
just moving
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT CHURCH PLANTING
You will not find “Church Planting Movements”
mentioned anywhere in the Bible. Yet, the first
century world was swirling with new converts and
multiplying indigenous churches planting
churches which are Church Planting Movements.
Let’s take a look at the characteristics of Church
Planting Movements and see what the Bible has
to say about them.
Abundant Gospel Sowing
2 Corinthians 9:6
“…whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
1 Thessalonians 1:8
“The Lord’s message rang out from you…”
All Peoples Will Be Reached
Psalms 67 “Let all the peoples praise you.”
Matthew 24:3, 14 “…and this gospel shall be preached to all
peoples.”
Revelation 5:9 “..you purchased men for God from every tribe…”
Revelation 7:9 “…a multitude that no one could count, from every
nation…”
Revelation 15:4 “All nations will come and worship before you.”
Psalm 96 “Ascribe to the Lord, O families of nations…”
God Will Do It
Philippians 1:6 “He who began…will do it.”
1 Peter 4:11 “…do it with the strength God provides.”
God’s Word
Acts 17:11 “…examined the Scriptures every day to see if…”
HOUSE CHURCHES
Acts 5:42 “…from house to house…”
Acts 8:3 “Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to
house…”
Acts 12:12 “…the house of Mary…where many people had
gathered…”
Romans 16:5 “Greet also the church that meets at their house.”
1 Corinthians 16:19 “…the church that meets at their house.”
Colossians 4:15 “…the church in her house.”
Philemon 2 “…the church that meets in your home.”
Lay Leadership
Psalm 119:97-100 “I have more insight than my teachers…for I obey…”
Jeremiah 1:7 “Do not say, ‘I am only a child…’”
Luke 8:39 “…so the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus…”
Acts 4:13 “…they were unschooled, ordinary men.”
1 Corinthians 1:26 “…not many were wise by human standards…”
2 Corinthians 3:4-5 “Not that we are competent in ourselves…”
1 Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young.”
1 Peter 2:9-10 “…you are a royal priesthood…”
1 Peter 4:10-11 “Each one should use whatever gift he has…”
Indigenous Leadership
2
Model, Equip, Watch & Leave
Timothy 2:2 “…entrust to reliable men…”
Titus
1:5 “…appoint elders in every town…
Multiple Church Leaders
1 Corinthians 12:7 “Now to each one…the Spirit is given for the common
good.
1 Corinthians 14:26 “…everyone has a hymn, or a word…a revelation…’”
Ephesians 4:11-16 “…some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some…”
Oikos Evangelism
- Community Implications to Evangelism
Acts 16:15 “…she and the members of her household were baptized.”
Acts 16:31 “…you will be saved—you and your household.”
Paradigm Shift
Habakkuk 1:5 “…you would not believe even if you were
told.”
Matt. 9:17 “…new wineskins”
Romans 12:1 “Be not conformed to this world…”
Jonah 1-4 -The reluctant missionary
Persecution and Suffering
Matthew 10:17-25 “A student is not above his teacher.”
2 Corinthians 11:23-29 “I have known hunger and thirst.”
1 Peter 4:12-13 “Do not be surprised [that] you are
suffering.”
Revelation 6:9-11 “How long [until] you avenge our blood?”
Revelation 12:10-12 “He is filled with fury, he knows his
time
is short.”
PRAYER
Psalms 2:8 “…ask of me and I will give you the ends of
the earth.”
Luke 5:16 “…Jesus often went off to a lonely place and
prayed.”
Luke 6:12 “…Jesus…spent the night praying to God…”
RAPID SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL
Acts 2:47 “…the Lord added to their number daily
those…being saved.”
Acts 19:20 “In this way the word of the Lord spread widely
and grew in power.”
Rapid Assimilation of New Believers
Acts 2:41 “Those who accepted his message were
baptized…that day.”
Acts8:26-39 “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”
Acts 16:5 “…the churches…grew daily in numbers.”
Acts 18:5 “…grew daily in numbers.”
Remove Obstacles
Luke 3:4-6 “…make straight the way of the Lord…”
The Man of Peace, Opening New Work
Luke 10:1-18 …when you enter a town…”
Unreached People Groups
Matthew 18:12-13 - Parable of the Lost Sheep
Romans 15:20-23 “…my ambition to preach where Christ
was
not known”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
1. Start with prayer – know the mind of God and join Him in His
work
2. Everything is grounded in Scripture
3. Focus is on households, not individuals
4. Make Disciples, not converts
5. Teach obedience-based discipleship, not knowledge-based
6. Plan your work and work your plan – be intentional in
Evangelism and Church Planting
CRITICAL ELEMENT
7. Start with the Man of Peace or an existing relationship that will
permit a Discovery Bible Study or Witness
8. Form new believers into minimum practice groups that will
become churches
9. Develop a group DNA of urgent obedience that will reach out
to “ALL”
10. Develop a group DNA of rapidly reproducing disciples,
leaders, groups and churches
11. Training is done “On the Job”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
12. Keep all things reproducible by local leaders
13. Use unpaid local leaders to start new groups
14. Authority of Scripture and the Holy Spirit are all that is needed
to start
15. Do not require cultural suicide
16. Persecution is part of being a Christian
17. Discipleship and Training are continuous and primarily done
through mentoring
18. Model, Equip, Watch, and Leave
COUNTER INTUITIVE
1. Go slow at first to go fast later… focus on few to win may
2. Stay only where Jesus has prepared someone’s heart to hear
and obey
3. Do not focus on personal evangelism… focus on evangelizing
the whole community through families
4. Start with creation not Christ
5. Disciple people to conversion… not vice versa
6. A novice insider will produce more fruit than a highly trained
outsider
COUNTER INTUITIVE
7. Prepare to spend a long time making strong disciples, but
anticipate miracle accelerations
8. The best time for a church to plant a new church is when it is
brand new
9. Focus on discipling ordinary people not developing
”Professional” Christians
10. Expect the hardest places to yield the greatest result
11. Small for-profit project often yield much higher long term
access to resistant areas than free services
9. Train,
Coach,
Mentor,
watch and
Leave
1. Identify
Community
2. Pray for
Community
8. Identify
Natural Local
Leader(S)
Baptize, believing
families, Plant a
Church
3. Do
Community
Profile
/People group
7. Share Testimony &
Stories.
Start Discovery Bible
study
6. Create
Relationship
Through
service
4. Send Spies
5. Identify
Person/
Family of
Peace
CHURCH GROWTH TYPES
People are inspired
and saved
Elephant Type Church
•Big
• Lots of Programs
• Holy Atmosphere (“church-like”)
・Stained glass
・Choir
・Good preaching
Slow to Multiply
•Fertile four time a year
•One baby per pregnancy (22 month gestation period)
•Sexual Maturity … 18 Years
Indispensable
Need to grow
One Pair of Elephants
One Pair of Elephants
…The family grows from 2 to 3
Each
5,500 kg
Total
16,500 kg
Rabbit Type Church
•Small Group Oriented
•Scripture is Primary Source of all Teaching
Rabbits are small,
Multiply Rapidly
Rabbits
• Practically continuously fertile
• Average of 7 babies per pregnancy
(1 month gestation period)
• Sexual Maturity… 4 months
… 3 years… Two Rabbits
In
become…
Each
1 kg
Total
476,000,000
kg
476 Million
SPECK
S – Is there a Sin to avoid or confess?
P – Is there a promise, a prayer, or praise in this
passage?
E – Is there an example to follow (or not follow)?
C – Is there a command to obey?
K – Is there knowledge that I need to retain?
What are we going to do with what we have learned
TODAY?
Text
John 3:16-17
What do you
understand?
How can you
Obey?
How can you
teach others to
Obey?
John 3:16 -17
"For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world
through him.
Slide 23
By
Pastor Shodankeh Johnson
INTRODUCTION
THE PRESENT SCENARIO
Encountering the World of Islam
1/5 of humanity bows to Islam’s Allah
20% of the world are Muslims
60% of the worlds poor are Muslim
80% of the world’s refugees are Muslim
GO TO
MATTHEW 28:16-20
People
who hate you
People who will want to kill you
Those we love and fear
People who don’t love you
People who are different from you
Go refers to change of heart rather than
just moving
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT CHURCH PLANTING
You will not find “Church Planting Movements”
mentioned anywhere in the Bible. Yet, the first
century world was swirling with new converts and
multiplying indigenous churches planting
churches which are Church Planting Movements.
Let’s take a look at the characteristics of Church
Planting Movements and see what the Bible has
to say about them.
Abundant Gospel Sowing
2 Corinthians 9:6
“…whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
1 Thessalonians 1:8
“The Lord’s message rang out from you…”
All Peoples Will Be Reached
Psalms 67 “Let all the peoples praise you.”
Matthew 24:3, 14 “…and this gospel shall be preached to all
peoples.”
Revelation 5:9 “..you purchased men for God from every tribe…”
Revelation 7:9 “…a multitude that no one could count, from every
nation…”
Revelation 15:4 “All nations will come and worship before you.”
Psalm 96 “Ascribe to the Lord, O families of nations…”
God Will Do It
Philippians 1:6 “He who began…will do it.”
1 Peter 4:11 “…do it with the strength God provides.”
God’s Word
Acts 17:11 “…examined the Scriptures every day to see if…”
HOUSE CHURCHES
Acts 5:42 “…from house to house…”
Acts 8:3 “Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to
house…”
Acts 12:12 “…the house of Mary…where many people had
gathered…”
Romans 16:5 “Greet also the church that meets at their house.”
1 Corinthians 16:19 “…the church that meets at their house.”
Colossians 4:15 “…the church in her house.”
Philemon 2 “…the church that meets in your home.”
Lay Leadership
Psalm 119:97-100 “I have more insight than my teachers…for I obey…”
Jeremiah 1:7 “Do not say, ‘I am only a child…’”
Luke 8:39 “…so the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus…”
Acts 4:13 “…they were unschooled, ordinary men.”
1 Corinthians 1:26 “…not many were wise by human standards…”
2 Corinthians 3:4-5 “Not that we are competent in ourselves…”
1 Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young.”
1 Peter 2:9-10 “…you are a royal priesthood…”
1 Peter 4:10-11 “Each one should use whatever gift he has…”
Indigenous Leadership
2
Model, Equip, Watch & Leave
Timothy 2:2 “…entrust to reliable men…”
Titus
1:5 “…appoint elders in every town…
Multiple Church Leaders
1 Corinthians 12:7 “Now to each one…the Spirit is given for the common
good.
1 Corinthians 14:26 “…everyone has a hymn, or a word…a revelation…’”
Ephesians 4:11-16 “…some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some…”
Oikos Evangelism
- Community Implications to Evangelism
Acts 16:15 “…she and the members of her household were baptized.”
Acts 16:31 “…you will be saved—you and your household.”
Paradigm Shift
Habakkuk 1:5 “…you would not believe even if you were
told.”
Matt. 9:17 “…new wineskins”
Romans 12:1 “Be not conformed to this world…”
Jonah 1-4 -The reluctant missionary
Persecution and Suffering
Matthew 10:17-25 “A student is not above his teacher.”
2 Corinthians 11:23-29 “I have known hunger and thirst.”
1 Peter 4:12-13 “Do not be surprised [that] you are
suffering.”
Revelation 6:9-11 “How long [until] you avenge our blood?”
Revelation 12:10-12 “He is filled with fury, he knows his
time
is short.”
PRAYER
Psalms 2:8 “…ask of me and I will give you the ends of
the earth.”
Luke 5:16 “…Jesus often went off to a lonely place and
prayed.”
Luke 6:12 “…Jesus…spent the night praying to God…”
RAPID SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL
Acts 2:47 “…the Lord added to their number daily
those…being saved.”
Acts 19:20 “In this way the word of the Lord spread widely
and grew in power.”
Rapid Assimilation of New Believers
Acts 2:41 “Those who accepted his message were
baptized…that day.”
Acts8:26-39 “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”
Acts 16:5 “…the churches…grew daily in numbers.”
Acts 18:5 “…grew daily in numbers.”
Remove Obstacles
Luke 3:4-6 “…make straight the way of the Lord…”
The Man of Peace, Opening New Work
Luke 10:1-18 …when you enter a town…”
Unreached People Groups
Matthew 18:12-13 - Parable of the Lost Sheep
Romans 15:20-23 “…my ambition to preach where Christ
was
not known”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
1. Start with prayer – know the mind of God and join Him in His
work
2. Everything is grounded in Scripture
3. Focus is on households, not individuals
4. Make Disciples, not converts
5. Teach obedience-based discipleship, not knowledge-based
6. Plan your work and work your plan – be intentional in
Evangelism and Church Planting
CRITICAL ELEMENT
7. Start with the Man of Peace or an existing relationship that will
permit a Discovery Bible Study or Witness
8. Form new believers into minimum practice groups that will
become churches
9. Develop a group DNA of urgent obedience that will reach out
to “ALL”
10. Develop a group DNA of rapidly reproducing disciples,
leaders, groups and churches
11. Training is done “On the Job”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
12. Keep all things reproducible by local leaders
13. Use unpaid local leaders to start new groups
14. Authority of Scripture and the Holy Spirit are all that is needed
to start
15. Do not require cultural suicide
16. Persecution is part of being a Christian
17. Discipleship and Training are continuous and primarily done
through mentoring
18. Model, Equip, Watch, and Leave
COUNTER INTUITIVE
1. Go slow at first to go fast later… focus on few to win may
2. Stay only where Jesus has prepared someone’s heart to hear
and obey
3. Do not focus on personal evangelism… focus on evangelizing
the whole community through families
4. Start with creation not Christ
5. Disciple people to conversion… not vice versa
6. A novice insider will produce more fruit than a highly trained
outsider
COUNTER INTUITIVE
7. Prepare to spend a long time making strong disciples, but
anticipate miracle accelerations
8. The best time for a church to plant a new church is when it is
brand new
9. Focus on discipling ordinary people not developing
”Professional” Christians
10. Expect the hardest places to yield the greatest result
11. Small for-profit project often yield much higher long term
access to resistant areas than free services
9. Train,
Coach,
Mentor,
watch and
Leave
1. Identify
Community
2. Pray for
Community
8. Identify
Natural Local
Leader(S)
Baptize, believing
families, Plant a
Church
3. Do
Community
Profile
/People group
7. Share Testimony &
Stories.
Start Discovery Bible
study
6. Create
Relationship
Through
service
4. Send Spies
5. Identify
Person/
Family of
Peace
CHURCH GROWTH TYPES
People are inspired
and saved
Elephant Type Church
•Big
• Lots of Programs
• Holy Atmosphere (“church-like”)
・Stained glass
・Choir
・Good preaching
Slow to Multiply
•Fertile four time a year
•One baby per pregnancy (22 month gestation period)
•Sexual Maturity … 18 Years
Indispensable
Need to grow
One Pair of Elephants
One Pair of Elephants
…The family grows from 2 to 3
Each
5,500 kg
Total
16,500 kg
Rabbit Type Church
•Small Group Oriented
•Scripture is Primary Source of all Teaching
Rabbits are small,
Multiply Rapidly
Rabbits
• Practically continuously fertile
• Average of 7 babies per pregnancy
(1 month gestation period)
• Sexual Maturity… 4 months
… 3 years… Two Rabbits
In
become…
Each
1 kg
Total
476,000,000
kg
476 Million
SPECK
S – Is there a Sin to avoid or confess?
P – Is there a promise, a prayer, or praise in this
passage?
E – Is there an example to follow (or not follow)?
C – Is there a command to obey?
K – Is there knowledge that I need to retain?
What are we going to do with what we have learned
TODAY?
Text
John 3:16-17
What do you
understand?
How can you
Obey?
How can you
teach others to
Obey?
John 3:16 -17
"For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world
through him.
Slide 24
By
Pastor Shodankeh Johnson
INTRODUCTION
THE PRESENT SCENARIO
Encountering the World of Islam
1/5 of humanity bows to Islam’s Allah
20% of the world are Muslims
60% of the worlds poor are Muslim
80% of the world’s refugees are Muslim
GO TO
MATTHEW 28:16-20
People
who hate you
People who will want to kill you
Those we love and fear
People who don’t love you
People who are different from you
Go refers to change of heart rather than
just moving
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT CHURCH PLANTING
You will not find “Church Planting Movements”
mentioned anywhere in the Bible. Yet, the first
century world was swirling with new converts and
multiplying indigenous churches planting
churches which are Church Planting Movements.
Let’s take a look at the characteristics of Church
Planting Movements and see what the Bible has
to say about them.
Abundant Gospel Sowing
2 Corinthians 9:6
“…whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
1 Thessalonians 1:8
“The Lord’s message rang out from you…”
All Peoples Will Be Reached
Psalms 67 “Let all the peoples praise you.”
Matthew 24:3, 14 “…and this gospel shall be preached to all
peoples.”
Revelation 5:9 “..you purchased men for God from every tribe…”
Revelation 7:9 “…a multitude that no one could count, from every
nation…”
Revelation 15:4 “All nations will come and worship before you.”
Psalm 96 “Ascribe to the Lord, O families of nations…”
God Will Do It
Philippians 1:6 “He who began…will do it.”
1 Peter 4:11 “…do it with the strength God provides.”
God’s Word
Acts 17:11 “…examined the Scriptures every day to see if…”
HOUSE CHURCHES
Acts 5:42 “…from house to house…”
Acts 8:3 “Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to
house…”
Acts 12:12 “…the house of Mary…where many people had
gathered…”
Romans 16:5 “Greet also the church that meets at their house.”
1 Corinthians 16:19 “…the church that meets at their house.”
Colossians 4:15 “…the church in her house.”
Philemon 2 “…the church that meets in your home.”
Lay Leadership
Psalm 119:97-100 “I have more insight than my teachers…for I obey…”
Jeremiah 1:7 “Do not say, ‘I am only a child…’”
Luke 8:39 “…so the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus…”
Acts 4:13 “…they were unschooled, ordinary men.”
1 Corinthians 1:26 “…not many were wise by human standards…”
2 Corinthians 3:4-5 “Not that we are competent in ourselves…”
1 Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young.”
1 Peter 2:9-10 “…you are a royal priesthood…”
1 Peter 4:10-11 “Each one should use whatever gift he has…”
Indigenous Leadership
2
Model, Equip, Watch & Leave
Timothy 2:2 “…entrust to reliable men…”
Titus
1:5 “…appoint elders in every town…
Multiple Church Leaders
1 Corinthians 12:7 “Now to each one…the Spirit is given for the common
good.
1 Corinthians 14:26 “…everyone has a hymn, or a word…a revelation…’”
Ephesians 4:11-16 “…some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some…”
Oikos Evangelism
- Community Implications to Evangelism
Acts 16:15 “…she and the members of her household were baptized.”
Acts 16:31 “…you will be saved—you and your household.”
Paradigm Shift
Habakkuk 1:5 “…you would not believe even if you were
told.”
Matt. 9:17 “…new wineskins”
Romans 12:1 “Be not conformed to this world…”
Jonah 1-4 -The reluctant missionary
Persecution and Suffering
Matthew 10:17-25 “A student is not above his teacher.”
2 Corinthians 11:23-29 “I have known hunger and thirst.”
1 Peter 4:12-13 “Do not be surprised [that] you are
suffering.”
Revelation 6:9-11 “How long [until] you avenge our blood?”
Revelation 12:10-12 “He is filled with fury, he knows his
time
is short.”
PRAYER
Psalms 2:8 “…ask of me and I will give you the ends of
the earth.”
Luke 5:16 “…Jesus often went off to a lonely place and
prayed.”
Luke 6:12 “…Jesus…spent the night praying to God…”
RAPID SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL
Acts 2:47 “…the Lord added to their number daily
those…being saved.”
Acts 19:20 “In this way the word of the Lord spread widely
and grew in power.”
Rapid Assimilation of New Believers
Acts 2:41 “Those who accepted his message were
baptized…that day.”
Acts8:26-39 “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”
Acts 16:5 “…the churches…grew daily in numbers.”
Acts 18:5 “…grew daily in numbers.”
Remove Obstacles
Luke 3:4-6 “…make straight the way of the Lord…”
The Man of Peace, Opening New Work
Luke 10:1-18 …when you enter a town…”
Unreached People Groups
Matthew 18:12-13 - Parable of the Lost Sheep
Romans 15:20-23 “…my ambition to preach where Christ
was
not known”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
1. Start with prayer – know the mind of God and join Him in His
work
2. Everything is grounded in Scripture
3. Focus is on households, not individuals
4. Make Disciples, not converts
5. Teach obedience-based discipleship, not knowledge-based
6. Plan your work and work your plan – be intentional in
Evangelism and Church Planting
CRITICAL ELEMENT
7. Start with the Man of Peace or an existing relationship that will
permit a Discovery Bible Study or Witness
8. Form new believers into minimum practice groups that will
become churches
9. Develop a group DNA of urgent obedience that will reach out
to “ALL”
10. Develop a group DNA of rapidly reproducing disciples,
leaders, groups and churches
11. Training is done “On the Job”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
12. Keep all things reproducible by local leaders
13. Use unpaid local leaders to start new groups
14. Authority of Scripture and the Holy Spirit are all that is needed
to start
15. Do not require cultural suicide
16. Persecution is part of being a Christian
17. Discipleship and Training are continuous and primarily done
through mentoring
18. Model, Equip, Watch, and Leave
COUNTER INTUITIVE
1. Go slow at first to go fast later… focus on few to win may
2. Stay only where Jesus has prepared someone’s heart to hear
and obey
3. Do not focus on personal evangelism… focus on evangelizing
the whole community through families
4. Start with creation not Christ
5. Disciple people to conversion… not vice versa
6. A novice insider will produce more fruit than a highly trained
outsider
COUNTER INTUITIVE
7. Prepare to spend a long time making strong disciples, but
anticipate miracle accelerations
8. The best time for a church to plant a new church is when it is
brand new
9. Focus on discipling ordinary people not developing
”Professional” Christians
10. Expect the hardest places to yield the greatest result
11. Small for-profit project often yield much higher long term
access to resistant areas than free services
9. Train,
Coach,
Mentor,
watch and
Leave
1. Identify
Community
2. Pray for
Community
8. Identify
Natural Local
Leader(S)
Baptize, believing
families, Plant a
Church
3. Do
Community
Profile
/People group
7. Share Testimony &
Stories.
Start Discovery Bible
study
6. Create
Relationship
Through
service
4. Send Spies
5. Identify
Person/
Family of
Peace
CHURCH GROWTH TYPES
People are inspired
and saved
Elephant Type Church
•Big
• Lots of Programs
• Holy Atmosphere (“church-like”)
・Stained glass
・Choir
・Good preaching
Slow to Multiply
•Fertile four time a year
•One baby per pregnancy (22 month gestation period)
•Sexual Maturity … 18 Years
Indispensable
Need to grow
One Pair of Elephants
One Pair of Elephants
…The family grows from 2 to 3
Each
5,500 kg
Total
16,500 kg
Rabbit Type Church
•Small Group Oriented
•Scripture is Primary Source of all Teaching
Rabbits are small,
Multiply Rapidly
Rabbits
• Practically continuously fertile
• Average of 7 babies per pregnancy
(1 month gestation period)
• Sexual Maturity… 4 months
… 3 years… Two Rabbits
In
become…
Each
1 kg
Total
476,000,000
kg
476 Million
SPECK
S – Is there a Sin to avoid or confess?
P – Is there a promise, a prayer, or praise in this
passage?
E – Is there an example to follow (or not follow)?
C – Is there a command to obey?
K – Is there knowledge that I need to retain?
What are we going to do with what we have learned
TODAY?
Text
John 3:16-17
What do you
understand?
How can you
Obey?
How can you
teach others to
Obey?
John 3:16 -17
"For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world
through him.
Slide 25
By
Pastor Shodankeh Johnson
INTRODUCTION
THE PRESENT SCENARIO
Encountering the World of Islam
1/5 of humanity bows to Islam’s Allah
20% of the world are Muslims
60% of the worlds poor are Muslim
80% of the world’s refugees are Muslim
GO TO
MATTHEW 28:16-20
People
who hate you
People who will want to kill you
Those we love and fear
People who don’t love you
People who are different from you
Go refers to change of heart rather than
just moving
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT CHURCH PLANTING
You will not find “Church Planting Movements”
mentioned anywhere in the Bible. Yet, the first
century world was swirling with new converts and
multiplying indigenous churches planting
churches which are Church Planting Movements.
Let’s take a look at the characteristics of Church
Planting Movements and see what the Bible has
to say about them.
Abundant Gospel Sowing
2 Corinthians 9:6
“…whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
1 Thessalonians 1:8
“The Lord’s message rang out from you…”
All Peoples Will Be Reached
Psalms 67 “Let all the peoples praise you.”
Matthew 24:3, 14 “…and this gospel shall be preached to all
peoples.”
Revelation 5:9 “..you purchased men for God from every tribe…”
Revelation 7:9 “…a multitude that no one could count, from every
nation…”
Revelation 15:4 “All nations will come and worship before you.”
Psalm 96 “Ascribe to the Lord, O families of nations…”
God Will Do It
Philippians 1:6 “He who began…will do it.”
1 Peter 4:11 “…do it with the strength God provides.”
God’s Word
Acts 17:11 “…examined the Scriptures every day to see if…”
HOUSE CHURCHES
Acts 5:42 “…from house to house…”
Acts 8:3 “Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to
house…”
Acts 12:12 “…the house of Mary…where many people had
gathered…”
Romans 16:5 “Greet also the church that meets at their house.”
1 Corinthians 16:19 “…the church that meets at their house.”
Colossians 4:15 “…the church in her house.”
Philemon 2 “…the church that meets in your home.”
Lay Leadership
Psalm 119:97-100 “I have more insight than my teachers…for I obey…”
Jeremiah 1:7 “Do not say, ‘I am only a child…’”
Luke 8:39 “…so the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus…”
Acts 4:13 “…they were unschooled, ordinary men.”
1 Corinthians 1:26 “…not many were wise by human standards…”
2 Corinthians 3:4-5 “Not that we are competent in ourselves…”
1 Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young.”
1 Peter 2:9-10 “…you are a royal priesthood…”
1 Peter 4:10-11 “Each one should use whatever gift he has…”
Indigenous Leadership
2
Model, Equip, Watch & Leave
Timothy 2:2 “…entrust to reliable men…”
Titus
1:5 “…appoint elders in every town…
Multiple Church Leaders
1 Corinthians 12:7 “Now to each one…the Spirit is given for the common
good.
1 Corinthians 14:26 “…everyone has a hymn, or a word…a revelation…’”
Ephesians 4:11-16 “…some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some…”
Oikos Evangelism
- Community Implications to Evangelism
Acts 16:15 “…she and the members of her household were baptized.”
Acts 16:31 “…you will be saved—you and your household.”
Paradigm Shift
Habakkuk 1:5 “…you would not believe even if you were
told.”
Matt. 9:17 “…new wineskins”
Romans 12:1 “Be not conformed to this world…”
Jonah 1-4 -The reluctant missionary
Persecution and Suffering
Matthew 10:17-25 “A student is not above his teacher.”
2 Corinthians 11:23-29 “I have known hunger and thirst.”
1 Peter 4:12-13 “Do not be surprised [that] you are
suffering.”
Revelation 6:9-11 “How long [until] you avenge our blood?”
Revelation 12:10-12 “He is filled with fury, he knows his
time
is short.”
PRAYER
Psalms 2:8 “…ask of me and I will give you the ends of
the earth.”
Luke 5:16 “…Jesus often went off to a lonely place and
prayed.”
Luke 6:12 “…Jesus…spent the night praying to God…”
RAPID SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL
Acts 2:47 “…the Lord added to their number daily
those…being saved.”
Acts 19:20 “In this way the word of the Lord spread widely
and grew in power.”
Rapid Assimilation of New Believers
Acts 2:41 “Those who accepted his message were
baptized…that day.”
Acts8:26-39 “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”
Acts 16:5 “…the churches…grew daily in numbers.”
Acts 18:5 “…grew daily in numbers.”
Remove Obstacles
Luke 3:4-6 “…make straight the way of the Lord…”
The Man of Peace, Opening New Work
Luke 10:1-18 …when you enter a town…”
Unreached People Groups
Matthew 18:12-13 - Parable of the Lost Sheep
Romans 15:20-23 “…my ambition to preach where Christ
was
not known”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
1. Start with prayer – know the mind of God and join Him in His
work
2. Everything is grounded in Scripture
3. Focus is on households, not individuals
4. Make Disciples, not converts
5. Teach obedience-based discipleship, not knowledge-based
6. Plan your work and work your plan – be intentional in
Evangelism and Church Planting
CRITICAL ELEMENT
7. Start with the Man of Peace or an existing relationship that will
permit a Discovery Bible Study or Witness
8. Form new believers into minimum practice groups that will
become churches
9. Develop a group DNA of urgent obedience that will reach out
to “ALL”
10. Develop a group DNA of rapidly reproducing disciples,
leaders, groups and churches
11. Training is done “On the Job”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
12. Keep all things reproducible by local leaders
13. Use unpaid local leaders to start new groups
14. Authority of Scripture and the Holy Spirit are all that is needed
to start
15. Do not require cultural suicide
16. Persecution is part of being a Christian
17. Discipleship and Training are continuous and primarily done
through mentoring
18. Model, Equip, Watch, and Leave
COUNTER INTUITIVE
1. Go slow at first to go fast later… focus on few to win may
2. Stay only where Jesus has prepared someone’s heart to hear
and obey
3. Do not focus on personal evangelism… focus on evangelizing
the whole community through families
4. Start with creation not Christ
5. Disciple people to conversion… not vice versa
6. A novice insider will produce more fruit than a highly trained
outsider
COUNTER INTUITIVE
7. Prepare to spend a long time making strong disciples, but
anticipate miracle accelerations
8. The best time for a church to plant a new church is when it is
brand new
9. Focus on discipling ordinary people not developing
”Professional” Christians
10. Expect the hardest places to yield the greatest result
11. Small for-profit project often yield much higher long term
access to resistant areas than free services
9. Train,
Coach,
Mentor,
watch and
Leave
1. Identify
Community
2. Pray for
Community
8. Identify
Natural Local
Leader(S)
Baptize, believing
families, Plant a
Church
3. Do
Community
Profile
/People group
7. Share Testimony &
Stories.
Start Discovery Bible
study
6. Create
Relationship
Through
service
4. Send Spies
5. Identify
Person/
Family of
Peace
CHURCH GROWTH TYPES
People are inspired
and saved
Elephant Type Church
•Big
• Lots of Programs
• Holy Atmosphere (“church-like”)
・Stained glass
・Choir
・Good preaching
Slow to Multiply
•Fertile four time a year
•One baby per pregnancy (22 month gestation period)
•Sexual Maturity … 18 Years
Indispensable
Need to grow
One Pair of Elephants
One Pair of Elephants
…The family grows from 2 to 3
Each
5,500 kg
Total
16,500 kg
Rabbit Type Church
•Small Group Oriented
•Scripture is Primary Source of all Teaching
Rabbits are small,
Multiply Rapidly
Rabbits
• Practically continuously fertile
• Average of 7 babies per pregnancy
(1 month gestation period)
• Sexual Maturity… 4 months
… 3 years… Two Rabbits
In
become…
Each
1 kg
Total
476,000,000
kg
476 Million
SPECK
S – Is there a Sin to avoid or confess?
P – Is there a promise, a prayer, or praise in this
passage?
E – Is there an example to follow (or not follow)?
C – Is there a command to obey?
K – Is there knowledge that I need to retain?
What are we going to do with what we have learned
TODAY?
Text
John 3:16-17
What do you
understand?
How can you
Obey?
How can you
teach others to
Obey?
John 3:16 -17
"For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world
through him.
Slide 26
By
Pastor Shodankeh Johnson
INTRODUCTION
THE PRESENT SCENARIO
Encountering the World of Islam
1/5 of humanity bows to Islam’s Allah
20% of the world are Muslims
60% of the worlds poor are Muslim
80% of the world’s refugees are Muslim
GO TO
MATTHEW 28:16-20
People
who hate you
People who will want to kill you
Those we love and fear
People who don’t love you
People who are different from you
Go refers to change of heart rather than
just moving
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT CHURCH PLANTING
You will not find “Church Planting Movements”
mentioned anywhere in the Bible. Yet, the first
century world was swirling with new converts and
multiplying indigenous churches planting
churches which are Church Planting Movements.
Let’s take a look at the characteristics of Church
Planting Movements and see what the Bible has
to say about them.
Abundant Gospel Sowing
2 Corinthians 9:6
“…whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
1 Thessalonians 1:8
“The Lord’s message rang out from you…”
All Peoples Will Be Reached
Psalms 67 “Let all the peoples praise you.”
Matthew 24:3, 14 “…and this gospel shall be preached to all
peoples.”
Revelation 5:9 “..you purchased men for God from every tribe…”
Revelation 7:9 “…a multitude that no one could count, from every
nation…”
Revelation 15:4 “All nations will come and worship before you.”
Psalm 96 “Ascribe to the Lord, O families of nations…”
God Will Do It
Philippians 1:6 “He who began…will do it.”
1 Peter 4:11 “…do it with the strength God provides.”
God’s Word
Acts 17:11 “…examined the Scriptures every day to see if…”
HOUSE CHURCHES
Acts 5:42 “…from house to house…”
Acts 8:3 “Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to
house…”
Acts 12:12 “…the house of Mary…where many people had
gathered…”
Romans 16:5 “Greet also the church that meets at their house.”
1 Corinthians 16:19 “…the church that meets at their house.”
Colossians 4:15 “…the church in her house.”
Philemon 2 “…the church that meets in your home.”
Lay Leadership
Psalm 119:97-100 “I have more insight than my teachers…for I obey…”
Jeremiah 1:7 “Do not say, ‘I am only a child…’”
Luke 8:39 “…so the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus…”
Acts 4:13 “…they were unschooled, ordinary men.”
1 Corinthians 1:26 “…not many were wise by human standards…”
2 Corinthians 3:4-5 “Not that we are competent in ourselves…”
1 Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young.”
1 Peter 2:9-10 “…you are a royal priesthood…”
1 Peter 4:10-11 “Each one should use whatever gift he has…”
Indigenous Leadership
2
Model, Equip, Watch & Leave
Timothy 2:2 “…entrust to reliable men…”
Titus
1:5 “…appoint elders in every town…
Multiple Church Leaders
1 Corinthians 12:7 “Now to each one…the Spirit is given for the common
good.
1 Corinthians 14:26 “…everyone has a hymn, or a word…a revelation…’”
Ephesians 4:11-16 “…some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some…”
Oikos Evangelism
- Community Implications to Evangelism
Acts 16:15 “…she and the members of her household were baptized.”
Acts 16:31 “…you will be saved—you and your household.”
Paradigm Shift
Habakkuk 1:5 “…you would not believe even if you were
told.”
Matt. 9:17 “…new wineskins”
Romans 12:1 “Be not conformed to this world…”
Jonah 1-4 -The reluctant missionary
Persecution and Suffering
Matthew 10:17-25 “A student is not above his teacher.”
2 Corinthians 11:23-29 “I have known hunger and thirst.”
1 Peter 4:12-13 “Do not be surprised [that] you are
suffering.”
Revelation 6:9-11 “How long [until] you avenge our blood?”
Revelation 12:10-12 “He is filled with fury, he knows his
time
is short.”
PRAYER
Psalms 2:8 “…ask of me and I will give you the ends of
the earth.”
Luke 5:16 “…Jesus often went off to a lonely place and
prayed.”
Luke 6:12 “…Jesus…spent the night praying to God…”
RAPID SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL
Acts 2:47 “…the Lord added to their number daily
those…being saved.”
Acts 19:20 “In this way the word of the Lord spread widely
and grew in power.”
Rapid Assimilation of New Believers
Acts 2:41 “Those who accepted his message were
baptized…that day.”
Acts8:26-39 “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”
Acts 16:5 “…the churches…grew daily in numbers.”
Acts 18:5 “…grew daily in numbers.”
Remove Obstacles
Luke 3:4-6 “…make straight the way of the Lord…”
The Man of Peace, Opening New Work
Luke 10:1-18 …when you enter a town…”
Unreached People Groups
Matthew 18:12-13 - Parable of the Lost Sheep
Romans 15:20-23 “…my ambition to preach where Christ
was
not known”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
1. Start with prayer – know the mind of God and join Him in His
work
2. Everything is grounded in Scripture
3. Focus is on households, not individuals
4. Make Disciples, not converts
5. Teach obedience-based discipleship, not knowledge-based
6. Plan your work and work your plan – be intentional in
Evangelism and Church Planting
CRITICAL ELEMENT
7. Start with the Man of Peace or an existing relationship that will
permit a Discovery Bible Study or Witness
8. Form new believers into minimum practice groups that will
become churches
9. Develop a group DNA of urgent obedience that will reach out
to “ALL”
10. Develop a group DNA of rapidly reproducing disciples,
leaders, groups and churches
11. Training is done “On the Job”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
12. Keep all things reproducible by local leaders
13. Use unpaid local leaders to start new groups
14. Authority of Scripture and the Holy Spirit are all that is needed
to start
15. Do not require cultural suicide
16. Persecution is part of being a Christian
17. Discipleship and Training are continuous and primarily done
through mentoring
18. Model, Equip, Watch, and Leave
COUNTER INTUITIVE
1. Go slow at first to go fast later… focus on few to win may
2. Stay only where Jesus has prepared someone’s heart to hear
and obey
3. Do not focus on personal evangelism… focus on evangelizing
the whole community through families
4. Start with creation not Christ
5. Disciple people to conversion… not vice versa
6. A novice insider will produce more fruit than a highly trained
outsider
COUNTER INTUITIVE
7. Prepare to spend a long time making strong disciples, but
anticipate miracle accelerations
8. The best time for a church to plant a new church is when it is
brand new
9. Focus on discipling ordinary people not developing
”Professional” Christians
10. Expect the hardest places to yield the greatest result
11. Small for-profit project often yield much higher long term
access to resistant areas than free services
9. Train,
Coach,
Mentor,
watch and
Leave
1. Identify
Community
2. Pray for
Community
8. Identify
Natural Local
Leader(S)
Baptize, believing
families, Plant a
Church
3. Do
Community
Profile
/People group
7. Share Testimony &
Stories.
Start Discovery Bible
study
6. Create
Relationship
Through
service
4. Send Spies
5. Identify
Person/
Family of
Peace
CHURCH GROWTH TYPES
People are inspired
and saved
Elephant Type Church
•Big
• Lots of Programs
• Holy Atmosphere (“church-like”)
・Stained glass
・Choir
・Good preaching
Slow to Multiply
•Fertile four time a year
•One baby per pregnancy (22 month gestation period)
•Sexual Maturity … 18 Years
Indispensable
Need to grow
One Pair of Elephants
One Pair of Elephants
…The family grows from 2 to 3
Each
5,500 kg
Total
16,500 kg
Rabbit Type Church
•Small Group Oriented
•Scripture is Primary Source of all Teaching
Rabbits are small,
Multiply Rapidly
Rabbits
• Practically continuously fertile
• Average of 7 babies per pregnancy
(1 month gestation period)
• Sexual Maturity… 4 months
… 3 years… Two Rabbits
In
become…
Each
1 kg
Total
476,000,000
kg
476 Million
SPECK
S – Is there a Sin to avoid or confess?
P – Is there a promise, a prayer, or praise in this
passage?
E – Is there an example to follow (or not follow)?
C – Is there a command to obey?
K – Is there knowledge that I need to retain?
What are we going to do with what we have learned
TODAY?
Text
John 3:16-17
What do you
understand?
How can you
Obey?
How can you
teach others to
Obey?
John 3:16 -17
"For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world
through him.
Slide 27
By
Pastor Shodankeh Johnson
INTRODUCTION
THE PRESENT SCENARIO
Encountering the World of Islam
1/5 of humanity bows to Islam’s Allah
20% of the world are Muslims
60% of the worlds poor are Muslim
80% of the world’s refugees are Muslim
GO TO
MATTHEW 28:16-20
People
who hate you
People who will want to kill you
Those we love and fear
People who don’t love you
People who are different from you
Go refers to change of heart rather than
just moving
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT CHURCH PLANTING
You will not find “Church Planting Movements”
mentioned anywhere in the Bible. Yet, the first
century world was swirling with new converts and
multiplying indigenous churches planting
churches which are Church Planting Movements.
Let’s take a look at the characteristics of Church
Planting Movements and see what the Bible has
to say about them.
Abundant Gospel Sowing
2 Corinthians 9:6
“…whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
1 Thessalonians 1:8
“The Lord’s message rang out from you…”
All Peoples Will Be Reached
Psalms 67 “Let all the peoples praise you.”
Matthew 24:3, 14 “…and this gospel shall be preached to all
peoples.”
Revelation 5:9 “..you purchased men for God from every tribe…”
Revelation 7:9 “…a multitude that no one could count, from every
nation…”
Revelation 15:4 “All nations will come and worship before you.”
Psalm 96 “Ascribe to the Lord, O families of nations…”
God Will Do It
Philippians 1:6 “He who began…will do it.”
1 Peter 4:11 “…do it with the strength God provides.”
God’s Word
Acts 17:11 “…examined the Scriptures every day to see if…”
HOUSE CHURCHES
Acts 5:42 “…from house to house…”
Acts 8:3 “Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to
house…”
Acts 12:12 “…the house of Mary…where many people had
gathered…”
Romans 16:5 “Greet also the church that meets at their house.”
1 Corinthians 16:19 “…the church that meets at their house.”
Colossians 4:15 “…the church in her house.”
Philemon 2 “…the church that meets in your home.”
Lay Leadership
Psalm 119:97-100 “I have more insight than my teachers…for I obey…”
Jeremiah 1:7 “Do not say, ‘I am only a child…’”
Luke 8:39 “…so the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus…”
Acts 4:13 “…they were unschooled, ordinary men.”
1 Corinthians 1:26 “…not many were wise by human standards…”
2 Corinthians 3:4-5 “Not that we are competent in ourselves…”
1 Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young.”
1 Peter 2:9-10 “…you are a royal priesthood…”
1 Peter 4:10-11 “Each one should use whatever gift he has…”
Indigenous Leadership
2
Model, Equip, Watch & Leave
Timothy 2:2 “…entrust to reliable men…”
Titus
1:5 “…appoint elders in every town…
Multiple Church Leaders
1 Corinthians 12:7 “Now to each one…the Spirit is given for the common
good.
1 Corinthians 14:26 “…everyone has a hymn, or a word…a revelation…’”
Ephesians 4:11-16 “…some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some…”
Oikos Evangelism
- Community Implications to Evangelism
Acts 16:15 “…she and the members of her household were baptized.”
Acts 16:31 “…you will be saved—you and your household.”
Paradigm Shift
Habakkuk 1:5 “…you would not believe even if you were
told.”
Matt. 9:17 “…new wineskins”
Romans 12:1 “Be not conformed to this world…”
Jonah 1-4 -The reluctant missionary
Persecution and Suffering
Matthew 10:17-25 “A student is not above his teacher.”
2 Corinthians 11:23-29 “I have known hunger and thirst.”
1 Peter 4:12-13 “Do not be surprised [that] you are
suffering.”
Revelation 6:9-11 “How long [until] you avenge our blood?”
Revelation 12:10-12 “He is filled with fury, he knows his
time
is short.”
PRAYER
Psalms 2:8 “…ask of me and I will give you the ends of
the earth.”
Luke 5:16 “…Jesus often went off to a lonely place and
prayed.”
Luke 6:12 “…Jesus…spent the night praying to God…”
RAPID SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL
Acts 2:47 “…the Lord added to their number daily
those…being saved.”
Acts 19:20 “In this way the word of the Lord spread widely
and grew in power.”
Rapid Assimilation of New Believers
Acts 2:41 “Those who accepted his message were
baptized…that day.”
Acts8:26-39 “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”
Acts 16:5 “…the churches…grew daily in numbers.”
Acts 18:5 “…grew daily in numbers.”
Remove Obstacles
Luke 3:4-6 “…make straight the way of the Lord…”
The Man of Peace, Opening New Work
Luke 10:1-18 …when you enter a town…”
Unreached People Groups
Matthew 18:12-13 - Parable of the Lost Sheep
Romans 15:20-23 “…my ambition to preach where Christ
was
not known”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
1. Start with prayer – know the mind of God and join Him in His
work
2. Everything is grounded in Scripture
3. Focus is on households, not individuals
4. Make Disciples, not converts
5. Teach obedience-based discipleship, not knowledge-based
6. Plan your work and work your plan – be intentional in
Evangelism and Church Planting
CRITICAL ELEMENT
7. Start with the Man of Peace or an existing relationship that will
permit a Discovery Bible Study or Witness
8. Form new believers into minimum practice groups that will
become churches
9. Develop a group DNA of urgent obedience that will reach out
to “ALL”
10. Develop a group DNA of rapidly reproducing disciples,
leaders, groups and churches
11. Training is done “On the Job”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
12. Keep all things reproducible by local leaders
13. Use unpaid local leaders to start new groups
14. Authority of Scripture and the Holy Spirit are all that is needed
to start
15. Do not require cultural suicide
16. Persecution is part of being a Christian
17. Discipleship and Training are continuous and primarily done
through mentoring
18. Model, Equip, Watch, and Leave
COUNTER INTUITIVE
1. Go slow at first to go fast later… focus on few to win may
2. Stay only where Jesus has prepared someone’s heart to hear
and obey
3. Do not focus on personal evangelism… focus on evangelizing
the whole community through families
4. Start with creation not Christ
5. Disciple people to conversion… not vice versa
6. A novice insider will produce more fruit than a highly trained
outsider
COUNTER INTUITIVE
7. Prepare to spend a long time making strong disciples, but
anticipate miracle accelerations
8. The best time for a church to plant a new church is when it is
brand new
9. Focus on discipling ordinary people not developing
”Professional” Christians
10. Expect the hardest places to yield the greatest result
11. Small for-profit project often yield much higher long term
access to resistant areas than free services
9. Train,
Coach,
Mentor,
watch and
Leave
1. Identify
Community
2. Pray for
Community
8. Identify
Natural Local
Leader(S)
Baptize, believing
families, Plant a
Church
3. Do
Community
Profile
/People group
7. Share Testimony &
Stories.
Start Discovery Bible
study
6. Create
Relationship
Through
service
4. Send Spies
5. Identify
Person/
Family of
Peace
CHURCH GROWTH TYPES
People are inspired
and saved
Elephant Type Church
•Big
• Lots of Programs
• Holy Atmosphere (“church-like”)
・Stained glass
・Choir
・Good preaching
Slow to Multiply
•Fertile four time a year
•One baby per pregnancy (22 month gestation period)
•Sexual Maturity … 18 Years
Indispensable
Need to grow
One Pair of Elephants
One Pair of Elephants
…The family grows from 2 to 3
Each
5,500 kg
Total
16,500 kg
Rabbit Type Church
•Small Group Oriented
•Scripture is Primary Source of all Teaching
Rabbits are small,
Multiply Rapidly
Rabbits
• Practically continuously fertile
• Average of 7 babies per pregnancy
(1 month gestation period)
• Sexual Maturity… 4 months
… 3 years… Two Rabbits
In
become…
Each
1 kg
Total
476,000,000
kg
476 Million
SPECK
S – Is there a Sin to avoid or confess?
P – Is there a promise, a prayer, or praise in this
passage?
E – Is there an example to follow (or not follow)?
C – Is there a command to obey?
K – Is there knowledge that I need to retain?
What are we going to do with what we have learned
TODAY?
Text
John 3:16-17
What do you
understand?
How can you
Obey?
How can you
teach others to
Obey?
John 3:16 -17
"For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world
through him.
By
Pastor Shodankeh Johnson
INTRODUCTION
THE PRESENT SCENARIO
Encountering the World of Islam
1/5 of humanity bows to Islam’s Allah
20% of the world are Muslims
60% of the worlds poor are Muslim
80% of the world’s refugees are Muslim
GO TO
MATTHEW 28:16-20
People
who hate you
People who will want to kill you
Those we love and fear
People who don’t love you
People who are different from you
Go refers to change of heart rather than
just moving
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT CHURCH PLANTING
You will not find “Church Planting Movements”
mentioned anywhere in the Bible. Yet, the first
century world was swirling with new converts and
multiplying indigenous churches planting
churches which are Church Planting Movements.
Let’s take a look at the characteristics of Church
Planting Movements and see what the Bible has
to say about them.
Abundant Gospel Sowing
2 Corinthians 9:6
“…whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
1 Thessalonians 1:8
“The Lord’s message rang out from you…”
All Peoples Will Be Reached
Psalms 67 “Let all the peoples praise you.”
Matthew 24:3, 14 “…and this gospel shall be preached to all
peoples.”
Revelation 5:9 “..you purchased men for God from every tribe…”
Revelation 7:9 “…a multitude that no one could count, from every
nation…”
Revelation 15:4 “All nations will come and worship before you.”
Psalm 96 “Ascribe to the Lord, O families of nations…”
God Will Do It
Philippians 1:6 “He who began…will do it.”
1 Peter 4:11 “…do it with the strength God provides.”
God’s Word
Acts 17:11 “…examined the Scriptures every day to see if…”
HOUSE CHURCHES
Acts 5:42 “…from house to house…”
Acts 8:3 “Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to
house…”
Acts 12:12 “…the house of Mary…where many people had
gathered…”
Romans 16:5 “Greet also the church that meets at their house.”
1 Corinthians 16:19 “…the church that meets at their house.”
Colossians 4:15 “…the church in her house.”
Philemon 2 “…the church that meets in your home.”
Lay Leadership
Psalm 119:97-100 “I have more insight than my teachers…for I obey…”
Jeremiah 1:7 “Do not say, ‘I am only a child…’”
Luke 8:39 “…so the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus…”
Acts 4:13 “…they were unschooled, ordinary men.”
1 Corinthians 1:26 “…not many were wise by human standards…”
2 Corinthians 3:4-5 “Not that we are competent in ourselves…”
1 Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young.”
1 Peter 2:9-10 “…you are a royal priesthood…”
1 Peter 4:10-11 “Each one should use whatever gift he has…”
Indigenous Leadership
2
Model, Equip, Watch & Leave
Timothy 2:2 “…entrust to reliable men…”
Titus
1:5 “…appoint elders in every town…
Multiple Church Leaders
1 Corinthians 12:7 “Now to each one…the Spirit is given for the common
good.
1 Corinthians 14:26 “…everyone has a hymn, or a word…a revelation…’”
Ephesians 4:11-16 “…some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some…”
Oikos Evangelism
- Community Implications to Evangelism
Acts 16:15 “…she and the members of her household were baptized.”
Acts 16:31 “…you will be saved—you and your household.”
Paradigm Shift
Habakkuk 1:5 “…you would not believe even if you were
told.”
Matt. 9:17 “…new wineskins”
Romans 12:1 “Be not conformed to this world…”
Jonah 1-4 -The reluctant missionary
Persecution and Suffering
Matthew 10:17-25 “A student is not above his teacher.”
2 Corinthians 11:23-29 “I have known hunger and thirst.”
1 Peter 4:12-13 “Do not be surprised [that] you are
suffering.”
Revelation 6:9-11 “How long [until] you avenge our blood?”
Revelation 12:10-12 “He is filled with fury, he knows his
time
is short.”
PRAYER
Psalms 2:8 “…ask of me and I will give you the ends of
the earth.”
Luke 5:16 “…Jesus often went off to a lonely place and
prayed.”
Luke 6:12 “…Jesus…spent the night praying to God…”
RAPID SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL
Acts 2:47 “…the Lord added to their number daily
those…being saved.”
Acts 19:20 “In this way the word of the Lord spread widely
and grew in power.”
Rapid Assimilation of New Believers
Acts 2:41 “Those who accepted his message were
baptized…that day.”
Acts8:26-39 “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”
Acts 16:5 “…the churches…grew daily in numbers.”
Acts 18:5 “…grew daily in numbers.”
Remove Obstacles
Luke 3:4-6 “…make straight the way of the Lord…”
The Man of Peace, Opening New Work
Luke 10:1-18 …when you enter a town…”
Unreached People Groups
Matthew 18:12-13 - Parable of the Lost Sheep
Romans 15:20-23 “…my ambition to preach where Christ
was
not known”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
1. Start with prayer – know the mind of God and join Him in His
work
2. Everything is grounded in Scripture
3. Focus is on households, not individuals
4. Make Disciples, not converts
5. Teach obedience-based discipleship, not knowledge-based
6. Plan your work and work your plan – be intentional in
Evangelism and Church Planting
CRITICAL ELEMENT
7. Start with the Man of Peace or an existing relationship that will
permit a Discovery Bible Study or Witness
8. Form new believers into minimum practice groups that will
become churches
9. Develop a group DNA of urgent obedience that will reach out
to “ALL”
10. Develop a group DNA of rapidly reproducing disciples,
leaders, groups and churches
11. Training is done “On the Job”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
12. Keep all things reproducible by local leaders
13. Use unpaid local leaders to start new groups
14. Authority of Scripture and the Holy Spirit are all that is needed
to start
15. Do not require cultural suicide
16. Persecution is part of being a Christian
17. Discipleship and Training are continuous and primarily done
through mentoring
18. Model, Equip, Watch, and Leave
COUNTER INTUITIVE
1. Go slow at first to go fast later… focus on few to win may
2. Stay only where Jesus has prepared someone’s heart to hear
and obey
3. Do not focus on personal evangelism… focus on evangelizing
the whole community through families
4. Start with creation not Christ
5. Disciple people to conversion… not vice versa
6. A novice insider will produce more fruit than a highly trained
outsider
COUNTER INTUITIVE
7. Prepare to spend a long time making strong disciples, but
anticipate miracle accelerations
8. The best time for a church to plant a new church is when it is
brand new
9. Focus on discipling ordinary people not developing
”Professional” Christians
10. Expect the hardest places to yield the greatest result
11. Small for-profit project often yield much higher long term
access to resistant areas than free services
9. Train,
Coach,
Mentor,
watch and
Leave
1. Identify
Community
2. Pray for
Community
8. Identify
Natural Local
Leader(S)
Baptize, believing
families, Plant a
Church
3. Do
Community
Profile
/People group
7. Share Testimony &
Stories.
Start Discovery Bible
study
6. Create
Relationship
Through
service
4. Send Spies
5. Identify
Person/
Family of
Peace
CHURCH GROWTH TYPES
People are inspired
and saved
Elephant Type Church
•Big
• Lots of Programs
• Holy Atmosphere (“church-like”)
・Stained glass
・Choir
・Good preaching
Slow to Multiply
•Fertile four time a year
•One baby per pregnancy (22 month gestation period)
•Sexual Maturity … 18 Years
Indispensable
Need to grow
One Pair of Elephants
One Pair of Elephants
…The family grows from 2 to 3
Each
5,500 kg
Total
16,500 kg
Rabbit Type Church
•Small Group Oriented
•Scripture is Primary Source of all Teaching
Rabbits are small,
Multiply Rapidly
Rabbits
• Practically continuously fertile
• Average of 7 babies per pregnancy
(1 month gestation period)
• Sexual Maturity… 4 months
… 3 years… Two Rabbits
In
become…
Each
1 kg
Total
476,000,000
kg
476 Million
SPECK
S – Is there a Sin to avoid or confess?
P – Is there a promise, a prayer, or praise in this
passage?
E – Is there an example to follow (or not follow)?
C – Is there a command to obey?
K – Is there knowledge that I need to retain?
What are we going to do with what we have learned
TODAY?
Text
John 3:16-17
What do you
understand?
How can you
Obey?
How can you
teach others to
Obey?
John 3:16 -17
"For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world
through him.
Slide 2
By
Pastor Shodankeh Johnson
INTRODUCTION
THE PRESENT SCENARIO
Encountering the World of Islam
1/5 of humanity bows to Islam’s Allah
20% of the world are Muslims
60% of the worlds poor are Muslim
80% of the world’s refugees are Muslim
GO TO
MATTHEW 28:16-20
People
who hate you
People who will want to kill you
Those we love and fear
People who don’t love you
People who are different from you
Go refers to change of heart rather than
just moving
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT CHURCH PLANTING
You will not find “Church Planting Movements”
mentioned anywhere in the Bible. Yet, the first
century world was swirling with new converts and
multiplying indigenous churches planting
churches which are Church Planting Movements.
Let’s take a look at the characteristics of Church
Planting Movements and see what the Bible has
to say about them.
Abundant Gospel Sowing
2 Corinthians 9:6
“…whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
1 Thessalonians 1:8
“The Lord’s message rang out from you…”
All Peoples Will Be Reached
Psalms 67 “Let all the peoples praise you.”
Matthew 24:3, 14 “…and this gospel shall be preached to all
peoples.”
Revelation 5:9 “..you purchased men for God from every tribe…”
Revelation 7:9 “…a multitude that no one could count, from every
nation…”
Revelation 15:4 “All nations will come and worship before you.”
Psalm 96 “Ascribe to the Lord, O families of nations…”
God Will Do It
Philippians 1:6 “He who began…will do it.”
1 Peter 4:11 “…do it with the strength God provides.”
God’s Word
Acts 17:11 “…examined the Scriptures every day to see if…”
HOUSE CHURCHES
Acts 5:42 “…from house to house…”
Acts 8:3 “Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to
house…”
Acts 12:12 “…the house of Mary…where many people had
gathered…”
Romans 16:5 “Greet also the church that meets at their house.”
1 Corinthians 16:19 “…the church that meets at their house.”
Colossians 4:15 “…the church in her house.”
Philemon 2 “…the church that meets in your home.”
Lay Leadership
Psalm 119:97-100 “I have more insight than my teachers…for I obey…”
Jeremiah 1:7 “Do not say, ‘I am only a child…’”
Luke 8:39 “…so the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus…”
Acts 4:13 “…they were unschooled, ordinary men.”
1 Corinthians 1:26 “…not many were wise by human standards…”
2 Corinthians 3:4-5 “Not that we are competent in ourselves…”
1 Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young.”
1 Peter 2:9-10 “…you are a royal priesthood…”
1 Peter 4:10-11 “Each one should use whatever gift he has…”
Indigenous Leadership
2
Model, Equip, Watch & Leave
Timothy 2:2 “…entrust to reliable men…”
Titus
1:5 “…appoint elders in every town…
Multiple Church Leaders
1 Corinthians 12:7 “Now to each one…the Spirit is given for the common
good.
1 Corinthians 14:26 “…everyone has a hymn, or a word…a revelation…’”
Ephesians 4:11-16 “…some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some…”
Oikos Evangelism
- Community Implications to Evangelism
Acts 16:15 “…she and the members of her household were baptized.”
Acts 16:31 “…you will be saved—you and your household.”
Paradigm Shift
Habakkuk 1:5 “…you would not believe even if you were
told.”
Matt. 9:17 “…new wineskins”
Romans 12:1 “Be not conformed to this world…”
Jonah 1-4 -The reluctant missionary
Persecution and Suffering
Matthew 10:17-25 “A student is not above his teacher.”
2 Corinthians 11:23-29 “I have known hunger and thirst.”
1 Peter 4:12-13 “Do not be surprised [that] you are
suffering.”
Revelation 6:9-11 “How long [until] you avenge our blood?”
Revelation 12:10-12 “He is filled with fury, he knows his
time
is short.”
PRAYER
Psalms 2:8 “…ask of me and I will give you the ends of
the earth.”
Luke 5:16 “…Jesus often went off to a lonely place and
prayed.”
Luke 6:12 “…Jesus…spent the night praying to God…”
RAPID SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL
Acts 2:47 “…the Lord added to their number daily
those…being saved.”
Acts 19:20 “In this way the word of the Lord spread widely
and grew in power.”
Rapid Assimilation of New Believers
Acts 2:41 “Those who accepted his message were
baptized…that day.”
Acts8:26-39 “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”
Acts 16:5 “…the churches…grew daily in numbers.”
Acts 18:5 “…grew daily in numbers.”
Remove Obstacles
Luke 3:4-6 “…make straight the way of the Lord…”
The Man of Peace, Opening New Work
Luke 10:1-18 …when you enter a town…”
Unreached People Groups
Matthew 18:12-13 - Parable of the Lost Sheep
Romans 15:20-23 “…my ambition to preach where Christ
was
not known”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
1. Start with prayer – know the mind of God and join Him in His
work
2. Everything is grounded in Scripture
3. Focus is on households, not individuals
4. Make Disciples, not converts
5. Teach obedience-based discipleship, not knowledge-based
6. Plan your work and work your plan – be intentional in
Evangelism and Church Planting
CRITICAL ELEMENT
7. Start with the Man of Peace or an existing relationship that will
permit a Discovery Bible Study or Witness
8. Form new believers into minimum practice groups that will
become churches
9. Develop a group DNA of urgent obedience that will reach out
to “ALL”
10. Develop a group DNA of rapidly reproducing disciples,
leaders, groups and churches
11. Training is done “On the Job”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
12. Keep all things reproducible by local leaders
13. Use unpaid local leaders to start new groups
14. Authority of Scripture and the Holy Spirit are all that is needed
to start
15. Do not require cultural suicide
16. Persecution is part of being a Christian
17. Discipleship and Training are continuous and primarily done
through mentoring
18. Model, Equip, Watch, and Leave
COUNTER INTUITIVE
1. Go slow at first to go fast later… focus on few to win may
2. Stay only where Jesus has prepared someone’s heart to hear
and obey
3. Do not focus on personal evangelism… focus on evangelizing
the whole community through families
4. Start with creation not Christ
5. Disciple people to conversion… not vice versa
6. A novice insider will produce more fruit than a highly trained
outsider
COUNTER INTUITIVE
7. Prepare to spend a long time making strong disciples, but
anticipate miracle accelerations
8. The best time for a church to plant a new church is when it is
brand new
9. Focus on discipling ordinary people not developing
”Professional” Christians
10. Expect the hardest places to yield the greatest result
11. Small for-profit project often yield much higher long term
access to resistant areas than free services
9. Train,
Coach,
Mentor,
watch and
Leave
1. Identify
Community
2. Pray for
Community
8. Identify
Natural Local
Leader(S)
Baptize, believing
families, Plant a
Church
3. Do
Community
Profile
/People group
7. Share Testimony &
Stories.
Start Discovery Bible
study
6. Create
Relationship
Through
service
4. Send Spies
5. Identify
Person/
Family of
Peace
CHURCH GROWTH TYPES
People are inspired
and saved
Elephant Type Church
•Big
• Lots of Programs
• Holy Atmosphere (“church-like”)
・Stained glass
・Choir
・Good preaching
Slow to Multiply
•Fertile four time a year
•One baby per pregnancy (22 month gestation period)
•Sexual Maturity … 18 Years
Indispensable
Need to grow
One Pair of Elephants
One Pair of Elephants
…The family grows from 2 to 3
Each
5,500 kg
Total
16,500 kg
Rabbit Type Church
•Small Group Oriented
•Scripture is Primary Source of all Teaching
Rabbits are small,
Multiply Rapidly
Rabbits
• Practically continuously fertile
• Average of 7 babies per pregnancy
(1 month gestation period)
• Sexual Maturity… 4 months
… 3 years… Two Rabbits
In
become…
Each
1 kg
Total
476,000,000
kg
476 Million
SPECK
S – Is there a Sin to avoid or confess?
P – Is there a promise, a prayer, or praise in this
passage?
E – Is there an example to follow (or not follow)?
C – Is there a command to obey?
K – Is there knowledge that I need to retain?
What are we going to do with what we have learned
TODAY?
Text
John 3:16-17
What do you
understand?
How can you
Obey?
How can you
teach others to
Obey?
John 3:16 -17
"For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world
through him.
Slide 3
By
Pastor Shodankeh Johnson
INTRODUCTION
THE PRESENT SCENARIO
Encountering the World of Islam
1/5 of humanity bows to Islam’s Allah
20% of the world are Muslims
60% of the worlds poor are Muslim
80% of the world’s refugees are Muslim
GO TO
MATTHEW 28:16-20
People
who hate you
People who will want to kill you
Those we love and fear
People who don’t love you
People who are different from you
Go refers to change of heart rather than
just moving
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT CHURCH PLANTING
You will not find “Church Planting Movements”
mentioned anywhere in the Bible. Yet, the first
century world was swirling with new converts and
multiplying indigenous churches planting
churches which are Church Planting Movements.
Let’s take a look at the characteristics of Church
Planting Movements and see what the Bible has
to say about them.
Abundant Gospel Sowing
2 Corinthians 9:6
“…whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
1 Thessalonians 1:8
“The Lord’s message rang out from you…”
All Peoples Will Be Reached
Psalms 67 “Let all the peoples praise you.”
Matthew 24:3, 14 “…and this gospel shall be preached to all
peoples.”
Revelation 5:9 “..you purchased men for God from every tribe…”
Revelation 7:9 “…a multitude that no one could count, from every
nation…”
Revelation 15:4 “All nations will come and worship before you.”
Psalm 96 “Ascribe to the Lord, O families of nations…”
God Will Do It
Philippians 1:6 “He who began…will do it.”
1 Peter 4:11 “…do it with the strength God provides.”
God’s Word
Acts 17:11 “…examined the Scriptures every day to see if…”
HOUSE CHURCHES
Acts 5:42 “…from house to house…”
Acts 8:3 “Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to
house…”
Acts 12:12 “…the house of Mary…where many people had
gathered…”
Romans 16:5 “Greet also the church that meets at their house.”
1 Corinthians 16:19 “…the church that meets at their house.”
Colossians 4:15 “…the church in her house.”
Philemon 2 “…the church that meets in your home.”
Lay Leadership
Psalm 119:97-100 “I have more insight than my teachers…for I obey…”
Jeremiah 1:7 “Do not say, ‘I am only a child…’”
Luke 8:39 “…so the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus…”
Acts 4:13 “…they were unschooled, ordinary men.”
1 Corinthians 1:26 “…not many were wise by human standards…”
2 Corinthians 3:4-5 “Not that we are competent in ourselves…”
1 Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young.”
1 Peter 2:9-10 “…you are a royal priesthood…”
1 Peter 4:10-11 “Each one should use whatever gift he has…”
Indigenous Leadership
2
Model, Equip, Watch & Leave
Timothy 2:2 “…entrust to reliable men…”
Titus
1:5 “…appoint elders in every town…
Multiple Church Leaders
1 Corinthians 12:7 “Now to each one…the Spirit is given for the common
good.
1 Corinthians 14:26 “…everyone has a hymn, or a word…a revelation…’”
Ephesians 4:11-16 “…some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some…”
Oikos Evangelism
- Community Implications to Evangelism
Acts 16:15 “…she and the members of her household were baptized.”
Acts 16:31 “…you will be saved—you and your household.”
Paradigm Shift
Habakkuk 1:5 “…you would not believe even if you were
told.”
Matt. 9:17 “…new wineskins”
Romans 12:1 “Be not conformed to this world…”
Jonah 1-4 -The reluctant missionary
Persecution and Suffering
Matthew 10:17-25 “A student is not above his teacher.”
2 Corinthians 11:23-29 “I have known hunger and thirst.”
1 Peter 4:12-13 “Do not be surprised [that] you are
suffering.”
Revelation 6:9-11 “How long [until] you avenge our blood?”
Revelation 12:10-12 “He is filled with fury, he knows his
time
is short.”
PRAYER
Psalms 2:8 “…ask of me and I will give you the ends of
the earth.”
Luke 5:16 “…Jesus often went off to a lonely place and
prayed.”
Luke 6:12 “…Jesus…spent the night praying to God…”
RAPID SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL
Acts 2:47 “…the Lord added to their number daily
those…being saved.”
Acts 19:20 “In this way the word of the Lord spread widely
and grew in power.”
Rapid Assimilation of New Believers
Acts 2:41 “Those who accepted his message were
baptized…that day.”
Acts8:26-39 “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”
Acts 16:5 “…the churches…grew daily in numbers.”
Acts 18:5 “…grew daily in numbers.”
Remove Obstacles
Luke 3:4-6 “…make straight the way of the Lord…”
The Man of Peace, Opening New Work
Luke 10:1-18 …when you enter a town…”
Unreached People Groups
Matthew 18:12-13 - Parable of the Lost Sheep
Romans 15:20-23 “…my ambition to preach where Christ
was
not known”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
1. Start with prayer – know the mind of God and join Him in His
work
2. Everything is grounded in Scripture
3. Focus is on households, not individuals
4. Make Disciples, not converts
5. Teach obedience-based discipleship, not knowledge-based
6. Plan your work and work your plan – be intentional in
Evangelism and Church Planting
CRITICAL ELEMENT
7. Start with the Man of Peace or an existing relationship that will
permit a Discovery Bible Study or Witness
8. Form new believers into minimum practice groups that will
become churches
9. Develop a group DNA of urgent obedience that will reach out
to “ALL”
10. Develop a group DNA of rapidly reproducing disciples,
leaders, groups and churches
11. Training is done “On the Job”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
12. Keep all things reproducible by local leaders
13. Use unpaid local leaders to start new groups
14. Authority of Scripture and the Holy Spirit are all that is needed
to start
15. Do not require cultural suicide
16. Persecution is part of being a Christian
17. Discipleship and Training are continuous and primarily done
through mentoring
18. Model, Equip, Watch, and Leave
COUNTER INTUITIVE
1. Go slow at first to go fast later… focus on few to win may
2. Stay only where Jesus has prepared someone’s heart to hear
and obey
3. Do not focus on personal evangelism… focus on evangelizing
the whole community through families
4. Start with creation not Christ
5. Disciple people to conversion… not vice versa
6. A novice insider will produce more fruit than a highly trained
outsider
COUNTER INTUITIVE
7. Prepare to spend a long time making strong disciples, but
anticipate miracle accelerations
8. The best time for a church to plant a new church is when it is
brand new
9. Focus on discipling ordinary people not developing
”Professional” Christians
10. Expect the hardest places to yield the greatest result
11. Small for-profit project often yield much higher long term
access to resistant areas than free services
9. Train,
Coach,
Mentor,
watch and
Leave
1. Identify
Community
2. Pray for
Community
8. Identify
Natural Local
Leader(S)
Baptize, believing
families, Plant a
Church
3. Do
Community
Profile
/People group
7. Share Testimony &
Stories.
Start Discovery Bible
study
6. Create
Relationship
Through
service
4. Send Spies
5. Identify
Person/
Family of
Peace
CHURCH GROWTH TYPES
People are inspired
and saved
Elephant Type Church
•Big
• Lots of Programs
• Holy Atmosphere (“church-like”)
・Stained glass
・Choir
・Good preaching
Slow to Multiply
•Fertile four time a year
•One baby per pregnancy (22 month gestation period)
•Sexual Maturity … 18 Years
Indispensable
Need to grow
One Pair of Elephants
One Pair of Elephants
…The family grows from 2 to 3
Each
5,500 kg
Total
16,500 kg
Rabbit Type Church
•Small Group Oriented
•Scripture is Primary Source of all Teaching
Rabbits are small,
Multiply Rapidly
Rabbits
• Practically continuously fertile
• Average of 7 babies per pregnancy
(1 month gestation period)
• Sexual Maturity… 4 months
… 3 years… Two Rabbits
In
become…
Each
1 kg
Total
476,000,000
kg
476 Million
SPECK
S – Is there a Sin to avoid or confess?
P – Is there a promise, a prayer, or praise in this
passage?
E – Is there an example to follow (or not follow)?
C – Is there a command to obey?
K – Is there knowledge that I need to retain?
What are we going to do with what we have learned
TODAY?
Text
John 3:16-17
What do you
understand?
How can you
Obey?
How can you
teach others to
Obey?
John 3:16 -17
"For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world
through him.
Slide 4
By
Pastor Shodankeh Johnson
INTRODUCTION
THE PRESENT SCENARIO
Encountering the World of Islam
1/5 of humanity bows to Islam’s Allah
20% of the world are Muslims
60% of the worlds poor are Muslim
80% of the world’s refugees are Muslim
GO TO
MATTHEW 28:16-20
People
who hate you
People who will want to kill you
Those we love and fear
People who don’t love you
People who are different from you
Go refers to change of heart rather than
just moving
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT CHURCH PLANTING
You will not find “Church Planting Movements”
mentioned anywhere in the Bible. Yet, the first
century world was swirling with new converts and
multiplying indigenous churches planting
churches which are Church Planting Movements.
Let’s take a look at the characteristics of Church
Planting Movements and see what the Bible has
to say about them.
Abundant Gospel Sowing
2 Corinthians 9:6
“…whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
1 Thessalonians 1:8
“The Lord’s message rang out from you…”
All Peoples Will Be Reached
Psalms 67 “Let all the peoples praise you.”
Matthew 24:3, 14 “…and this gospel shall be preached to all
peoples.”
Revelation 5:9 “..you purchased men for God from every tribe…”
Revelation 7:9 “…a multitude that no one could count, from every
nation…”
Revelation 15:4 “All nations will come and worship before you.”
Psalm 96 “Ascribe to the Lord, O families of nations…”
God Will Do It
Philippians 1:6 “He who began…will do it.”
1 Peter 4:11 “…do it with the strength God provides.”
God’s Word
Acts 17:11 “…examined the Scriptures every day to see if…”
HOUSE CHURCHES
Acts 5:42 “…from house to house…”
Acts 8:3 “Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to
house…”
Acts 12:12 “…the house of Mary…where many people had
gathered…”
Romans 16:5 “Greet also the church that meets at their house.”
1 Corinthians 16:19 “…the church that meets at their house.”
Colossians 4:15 “…the church in her house.”
Philemon 2 “…the church that meets in your home.”
Lay Leadership
Psalm 119:97-100 “I have more insight than my teachers…for I obey…”
Jeremiah 1:7 “Do not say, ‘I am only a child…’”
Luke 8:39 “…so the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus…”
Acts 4:13 “…they were unschooled, ordinary men.”
1 Corinthians 1:26 “…not many were wise by human standards…”
2 Corinthians 3:4-5 “Not that we are competent in ourselves…”
1 Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young.”
1 Peter 2:9-10 “…you are a royal priesthood…”
1 Peter 4:10-11 “Each one should use whatever gift he has…”
Indigenous Leadership
2
Model, Equip, Watch & Leave
Timothy 2:2 “…entrust to reliable men…”
Titus
1:5 “…appoint elders in every town…
Multiple Church Leaders
1 Corinthians 12:7 “Now to each one…the Spirit is given for the common
good.
1 Corinthians 14:26 “…everyone has a hymn, or a word…a revelation…’”
Ephesians 4:11-16 “…some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some…”
Oikos Evangelism
- Community Implications to Evangelism
Acts 16:15 “…she and the members of her household were baptized.”
Acts 16:31 “…you will be saved—you and your household.”
Paradigm Shift
Habakkuk 1:5 “…you would not believe even if you were
told.”
Matt. 9:17 “…new wineskins”
Romans 12:1 “Be not conformed to this world…”
Jonah 1-4 -The reluctant missionary
Persecution and Suffering
Matthew 10:17-25 “A student is not above his teacher.”
2 Corinthians 11:23-29 “I have known hunger and thirst.”
1 Peter 4:12-13 “Do not be surprised [that] you are
suffering.”
Revelation 6:9-11 “How long [until] you avenge our blood?”
Revelation 12:10-12 “He is filled with fury, he knows his
time
is short.”
PRAYER
Psalms 2:8 “…ask of me and I will give you the ends of
the earth.”
Luke 5:16 “…Jesus often went off to a lonely place and
prayed.”
Luke 6:12 “…Jesus…spent the night praying to God…”
RAPID SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL
Acts 2:47 “…the Lord added to their number daily
those…being saved.”
Acts 19:20 “In this way the word of the Lord spread widely
and grew in power.”
Rapid Assimilation of New Believers
Acts 2:41 “Those who accepted his message were
baptized…that day.”
Acts8:26-39 “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”
Acts 16:5 “…the churches…grew daily in numbers.”
Acts 18:5 “…grew daily in numbers.”
Remove Obstacles
Luke 3:4-6 “…make straight the way of the Lord…”
The Man of Peace, Opening New Work
Luke 10:1-18 …when you enter a town…”
Unreached People Groups
Matthew 18:12-13 - Parable of the Lost Sheep
Romans 15:20-23 “…my ambition to preach where Christ
was
not known”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
1. Start with prayer – know the mind of God and join Him in His
work
2. Everything is grounded in Scripture
3. Focus is on households, not individuals
4. Make Disciples, not converts
5. Teach obedience-based discipleship, not knowledge-based
6. Plan your work and work your plan – be intentional in
Evangelism and Church Planting
CRITICAL ELEMENT
7. Start with the Man of Peace or an existing relationship that will
permit a Discovery Bible Study or Witness
8. Form new believers into minimum practice groups that will
become churches
9. Develop a group DNA of urgent obedience that will reach out
to “ALL”
10. Develop a group DNA of rapidly reproducing disciples,
leaders, groups and churches
11. Training is done “On the Job”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
12. Keep all things reproducible by local leaders
13. Use unpaid local leaders to start new groups
14. Authority of Scripture and the Holy Spirit are all that is needed
to start
15. Do not require cultural suicide
16. Persecution is part of being a Christian
17. Discipleship and Training are continuous and primarily done
through mentoring
18. Model, Equip, Watch, and Leave
COUNTER INTUITIVE
1. Go slow at first to go fast later… focus on few to win may
2. Stay only where Jesus has prepared someone’s heart to hear
and obey
3. Do not focus on personal evangelism… focus on evangelizing
the whole community through families
4. Start with creation not Christ
5. Disciple people to conversion… not vice versa
6. A novice insider will produce more fruit than a highly trained
outsider
COUNTER INTUITIVE
7. Prepare to spend a long time making strong disciples, but
anticipate miracle accelerations
8. The best time for a church to plant a new church is when it is
brand new
9. Focus on discipling ordinary people not developing
”Professional” Christians
10. Expect the hardest places to yield the greatest result
11. Small for-profit project often yield much higher long term
access to resistant areas than free services
9. Train,
Coach,
Mentor,
watch and
Leave
1. Identify
Community
2. Pray for
Community
8. Identify
Natural Local
Leader(S)
Baptize, believing
families, Plant a
Church
3. Do
Community
Profile
/People group
7. Share Testimony &
Stories.
Start Discovery Bible
study
6. Create
Relationship
Through
service
4. Send Spies
5. Identify
Person/
Family of
Peace
CHURCH GROWTH TYPES
People are inspired
and saved
Elephant Type Church
•Big
• Lots of Programs
• Holy Atmosphere (“church-like”)
・Stained glass
・Choir
・Good preaching
Slow to Multiply
•Fertile four time a year
•One baby per pregnancy (22 month gestation period)
•Sexual Maturity … 18 Years
Indispensable
Need to grow
One Pair of Elephants
One Pair of Elephants
…The family grows from 2 to 3
Each
5,500 kg
Total
16,500 kg
Rabbit Type Church
•Small Group Oriented
•Scripture is Primary Source of all Teaching
Rabbits are small,
Multiply Rapidly
Rabbits
• Practically continuously fertile
• Average of 7 babies per pregnancy
(1 month gestation period)
• Sexual Maturity… 4 months
… 3 years… Two Rabbits
In
become…
Each
1 kg
Total
476,000,000
kg
476 Million
SPECK
S – Is there a Sin to avoid or confess?
P – Is there a promise, a prayer, or praise in this
passage?
E – Is there an example to follow (or not follow)?
C – Is there a command to obey?
K – Is there knowledge that I need to retain?
What are we going to do with what we have learned
TODAY?
Text
John 3:16-17
What do you
understand?
How can you
Obey?
How can you
teach others to
Obey?
John 3:16 -17
"For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world
through him.
Slide 5
By
Pastor Shodankeh Johnson
INTRODUCTION
THE PRESENT SCENARIO
Encountering the World of Islam
1/5 of humanity bows to Islam’s Allah
20% of the world are Muslims
60% of the worlds poor are Muslim
80% of the world’s refugees are Muslim
GO TO
MATTHEW 28:16-20
People
who hate you
People who will want to kill you
Those we love and fear
People who don’t love you
People who are different from you
Go refers to change of heart rather than
just moving
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT CHURCH PLANTING
You will not find “Church Planting Movements”
mentioned anywhere in the Bible. Yet, the first
century world was swirling with new converts and
multiplying indigenous churches planting
churches which are Church Planting Movements.
Let’s take a look at the characteristics of Church
Planting Movements and see what the Bible has
to say about them.
Abundant Gospel Sowing
2 Corinthians 9:6
“…whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
1 Thessalonians 1:8
“The Lord’s message rang out from you…”
All Peoples Will Be Reached
Psalms 67 “Let all the peoples praise you.”
Matthew 24:3, 14 “…and this gospel shall be preached to all
peoples.”
Revelation 5:9 “..you purchased men for God from every tribe…”
Revelation 7:9 “…a multitude that no one could count, from every
nation…”
Revelation 15:4 “All nations will come and worship before you.”
Psalm 96 “Ascribe to the Lord, O families of nations…”
God Will Do It
Philippians 1:6 “He who began…will do it.”
1 Peter 4:11 “…do it with the strength God provides.”
God’s Word
Acts 17:11 “…examined the Scriptures every day to see if…”
HOUSE CHURCHES
Acts 5:42 “…from house to house…”
Acts 8:3 “Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to
house…”
Acts 12:12 “…the house of Mary…where many people had
gathered…”
Romans 16:5 “Greet also the church that meets at their house.”
1 Corinthians 16:19 “…the church that meets at their house.”
Colossians 4:15 “…the church in her house.”
Philemon 2 “…the church that meets in your home.”
Lay Leadership
Psalm 119:97-100 “I have more insight than my teachers…for I obey…”
Jeremiah 1:7 “Do not say, ‘I am only a child…’”
Luke 8:39 “…so the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus…”
Acts 4:13 “…they were unschooled, ordinary men.”
1 Corinthians 1:26 “…not many were wise by human standards…”
2 Corinthians 3:4-5 “Not that we are competent in ourselves…”
1 Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young.”
1 Peter 2:9-10 “…you are a royal priesthood…”
1 Peter 4:10-11 “Each one should use whatever gift he has…”
Indigenous Leadership
2
Model, Equip, Watch & Leave
Timothy 2:2 “…entrust to reliable men…”
Titus
1:5 “…appoint elders in every town…
Multiple Church Leaders
1 Corinthians 12:7 “Now to each one…the Spirit is given for the common
good.
1 Corinthians 14:26 “…everyone has a hymn, or a word…a revelation…’”
Ephesians 4:11-16 “…some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some…”
Oikos Evangelism
- Community Implications to Evangelism
Acts 16:15 “…she and the members of her household were baptized.”
Acts 16:31 “…you will be saved—you and your household.”
Paradigm Shift
Habakkuk 1:5 “…you would not believe even if you were
told.”
Matt. 9:17 “…new wineskins”
Romans 12:1 “Be not conformed to this world…”
Jonah 1-4 -The reluctant missionary
Persecution and Suffering
Matthew 10:17-25 “A student is not above his teacher.”
2 Corinthians 11:23-29 “I have known hunger and thirst.”
1 Peter 4:12-13 “Do not be surprised [that] you are
suffering.”
Revelation 6:9-11 “How long [until] you avenge our blood?”
Revelation 12:10-12 “He is filled with fury, he knows his
time
is short.”
PRAYER
Psalms 2:8 “…ask of me and I will give you the ends of
the earth.”
Luke 5:16 “…Jesus often went off to a lonely place and
prayed.”
Luke 6:12 “…Jesus…spent the night praying to God…”
RAPID SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL
Acts 2:47 “…the Lord added to their number daily
those…being saved.”
Acts 19:20 “In this way the word of the Lord spread widely
and grew in power.”
Rapid Assimilation of New Believers
Acts 2:41 “Those who accepted his message were
baptized…that day.”
Acts8:26-39 “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”
Acts 16:5 “…the churches…grew daily in numbers.”
Acts 18:5 “…grew daily in numbers.”
Remove Obstacles
Luke 3:4-6 “…make straight the way of the Lord…”
The Man of Peace, Opening New Work
Luke 10:1-18 …when you enter a town…”
Unreached People Groups
Matthew 18:12-13 - Parable of the Lost Sheep
Romans 15:20-23 “…my ambition to preach where Christ
was
not known”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
1. Start with prayer – know the mind of God and join Him in His
work
2. Everything is grounded in Scripture
3. Focus is on households, not individuals
4. Make Disciples, not converts
5. Teach obedience-based discipleship, not knowledge-based
6. Plan your work and work your plan – be intentional in
Evangelism and Church Planting
CRITICAL ELEMENT
7. Start with the Man of Peace or an existing relationship that will
permit a Discovery Bible Study or Witness
8. Form new believers into minimum practice groups that will
become churches
9. Develop a group DNA of urgent obedience that will reach out
to “ALL”
10. Develop a group DNA of rapidly reproducing disciples,
leaders, groups and churches
11. Training is done “On the Job”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
12. Keep all things reproducible by local leaders
13. Use unpaid local leaders to start new groups
14. Authority of Scripture and the Holy Spirit are all that is needed
to start
15. Do not require cultural suicide
16. Persecution is part of being a Christian
17. Discipleship and Training are continuous and primarily done
through mentoring
18. Model, Equip, Watch, and Leave
COUNTER INTUITIVE
1. Go slow at first to go fast later… focus on few to win may
2. Stay only where Jesus has prepared someone’s heart to hear
and obey
3. Do not focus on personal evangelism… focus on evangelizing
the whole community through families
4. Start with creation not Christ
5. Disciple people to conversion… not vice versa
6. A novice insider will produce more fruit than a highly trained
outsider
COUNTER INTUITIVE
7. Prepare to spend a long time making strong disciples, but
anticipate miracle accelerations
8. The best time for a church to plant a new church is when it is
brand new
9. Focus on discipling ordinary people not developing
”Professional” Christians
10. Expect the hardest places to yield the greatest result
11. Small for-profit project often yield much higher long term
access to resistant areas than free services
9. Train,
Coach,
Mentor,
watch and
Leave
1. Identify
Community
2. Pray for
Community
8. Identify
Natural Local
Leader(S)
Baptize, believing
families, Plant a
Church
3. Do
Community
Profile
/People group
7. Share Testimony &
Stories.
Start Discovery Bible
study
6. Create
Relationship
Through
service
4. Send Spies
5. Identify
Person/
Family of
Peace
CHURCH GROWTH TYPES
People are inspired
and saved
Elephant Type Church
•Big
• Lots of Programs
• Holy Atmosphere (“church-like”)
・Stained glass
・Choir
・Good preaching
Slow to Multiply
•Fertile four time a year
•One baby per pregnancy (22 month gestation period)
•Sexual Maturity … 18 Years
Indispensable
Need to grow
One Pair of Elephants
One Pair of Elephants
…The family grows from 2 to 3
Each
5,500 kg
Total
16,500 kg
Rabbit Type Church
•Small Group Oriented
•Scripture is Primary Source of all Teaching
Rabbits are small,
Multiply Rapidly
Rabbits
• Practically continuously fertile
• Average of 7 babies per pregnancy
(1 month gestation period)
• Sexual Maturity… 4 months
… 3 years… Two Rabbits
In
become…
Each
1 kg
Total
476,000,000
kg
476 Million
SPECK
S – Is there a Sin to avoid or confess?
P – Is there a promise, a prayer, or praise in this
passage?
E – Is there an example to follow (or not follow)?
C – Is there a command to obey?
K – Is there knowledge that I need to retain?
What are we going to do with what we have learned
TODAY?
Text
John 3:16-17
What do you
understand?
How can you
Obey?
How can you
teach others to
Obey?
John 3:16 -17
"For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world
through him.
Slide 6
By
Pastor Shodankeh Johnson
INTRODUCTION
THE PRESENT SCENARIO
Encountering the World of Islam
1/5 of humanity bows to Islam’s Allah
20% of the world are Muslims
60% of the worlds poor are Muslim
80% of the world’s refugees are Muslim
GO TO
MATTHEW 28:16-20
People
who hate you
People who will want to kill you
Those we love and fear
People who don’t love you
People who are different from you
Go refers to change of heart rather than
just moving
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT CHURCH PLANTING
You will not find “Church Planting Movements”
mentioned anywhere in the Bible. Yet, the first
century world was swirling with new converts and
multiplying indigenous churches planting
churches which are Church Planting Movements.
Let’s take a look at the characteristics of Church
Planting Movements and see what the Bible has
to say about them.
Abundant Gospel Sowing
2 Corinthians 9:6
“…whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
1 Thessalonians 1:8
“The Lord’s message rang out from you…”
All Peoples Will Be Reached
Psalms 67 “Let all the peoples praise you.”
Matthew 24:3, 14 “…and this gospel shall be preached to all
peoples.”
Revelation 5:9 “..you purchased men for God from every tribe…”
Revelation 7:9 “…a multitude that no one could count, from every
nation…”
Revelation 15:4 “All nations will come and worship before you.”
Psalm 96 “Ascribe to the Lord, O families of nations…”
God Will Do It
Philippians 1:6 “He who began…will do it.”
1 Peter 4:11 “…do it with the strength God provides.”
God’s Word
Acts 17:11 “…examined the Scriptures every day to see if…”
HOUSE CHURCHES
Acts 5:42 “…from house to house…”
Acts 8:3 “Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to
house…”
Acts 12:12 “…the house of Mary…where many people had
gathered…”
Romans 16:5 “Greet also the church that meets at their house.”
1 Corinthians 16:19 “…the church that meets at their house.”
Colossians 4:15 “…the church in her house.”
Philemon 2 “…the church that meets in your home.”
Lay Leadership
Psalm 119:97-100 “I have more insight than my teachers…for I obey…”
Jeremiah 1:7 “Do not say, ‘I am only a child…’”
Luke 8:39 “…so the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus…”
Acts 4:13 “…they were unschooled, ordinary men.”
1 Corinthians 1:26 “…not many were wise by human standards…”
2 Corinthians 3:4-5 “Not that we are competent in ourselves…”
1 Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young.”
1 Peter 2:9-10 “…you are a royal priesthood…”
1 Peter 4:10-11 “Each one should use whatever gift he has…”
Indigenous Leadership
2
Model, Equip, Watch & Leave
Timothy 2:2 “…entrust to reliable men…”
Titus
1:5 “…appoint elders in every town…
Multiple Church Leaders
1 Corinthians 12:7 “Now to each one…the Spirit is given for the common
good.
1 Corinthians 14:26 “…everyone has a hymn, or a word…a revelation…’”
Ephesians 4:11-16 “…some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some…”
Oikos Evangelism
- Community Implications to Evangelism
Acts 16:15 “…she and the members of her household were baptized.”
Acts 16:31 “…you will be saved—you and your household.”
Paradigm Shift
Habakkuk 1:5 “…you would not believe even if you were
told.”
Matt. 9:17 “…new wineskins”
Romans 12:1 “Be not conformed to this world…”
Jonah 1-4 -The reluctant missionary
Persecution and Suffering
Matthew 10:17-25 “A student is not above his teacher.”
2 Corinthians 11:23-29 “I have known hunger and thirst.”
1 Peter 4:12-13 “Do not be surprised [that] you are
suffering.”
Revelation 6:9-11 “How long [until] you avenge our blood?”
Revelation 12:10-12 “He is filled with fury, he knows his
time
is short.”
PRAYER
Psalms 2:8 “…ask of me and I will give you the ends of
the earth.”
Luke 5:16 “…Jesus often went off to a lonely place and
prayed.”
Luke 6:12 “…Jesus…spent the night praying to God…”
RAPID SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL
Acts 2:47 “…the Lord added to their number daily
those…being saved.”
Acts 19:20 “In this way the word of the Lord spread widely
and grew in power.”
Rapid Assimilation of New Believers
Acts 2:41 “Those who accepted his message were
baptized…that day.”
Acts8:26-39 “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”
Acts 16:5 “…the churches…grew daily in numbers.”
Acts 18:5 “…grew daily in numbers.”
Remove Obstacles
Luke 3:4-6 “…make straight the way of the Lord…”
The Man of Peace, Opening New Work
Luke 10:1-18 …when you enter a town…”
Unreached People Groups
Matthew 18:12-13 - Parable of the Lost Sheep
Romans 15:20-23 “…my ambition to preach where Christ
was
not known”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
1. Start with prayer – know the mind of God and join Him in His
work
2. Everything is grounded in Scripture
3. Focus is on households, not individuals
4. Make Disciples, not converts
5. Teach obedience-based discipleship, not knowledge-based
6. Plan your work and work your plan – be intentional in
Evangelism and Church Planting
CRITICAL ELEMENT
7. Start with the Man of Peace or an existing relationship that will
permit a Discovery Bible Study or Witness
8. Form new believers into minimum practice groups that will
become churches
9. Develop a group DNA of urgent obedience that will reach out
to “ALL”
10. Develop a group DNA of rapidly reproducing disciples,
leaders, groups and churches
11. Training is done “On the Job”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
12. Keep all things reproducible by local leaders
13. Use unpaid local leaders to start new groups
14. Authority of Scripture and the Holy Spirit are all that is needed
to start
15. Do not require cultural suicide
16. Persecution is part of being a Christian
17. Discipleship and Training are continuous and primarily done
through mentoring
18. Model, Equip, Watch, and Leave
COUNTER INTUITIVE
1. Go slow at first to go fast later… focus on few to win may
2. Stay only where Jesus has prepared someone’s heart to hear
and obey
3. Do not focus on personal evangelism… focus on evangelizing
the whole community through families
4. Start with creation not Christ
5. Disciple people to conversion… not vice versa
6. A novice insider will produce more fruit than a highly trained
outsider
COUNTER INTUITIVE
7. Prepare to spend a long time making strong disciples, but
anticipate miracle accelerations
8. The best time for a church to plant a new church is when it is
brand new
9. Focus on discipling ordinary people not developing
”Professional” Christians
10. Expect the hardest places to yield the greatest result
11. Small for-profit project often yield much higher long term
access to resistant areas than free services
9. Train,
Coach,
Mentor,
watch and
Leave
1. Identify
Community
2. Pray for
Community
8. Identify
Natural Local
Leader(S)
Baptize, believing
families, Plant a
Church
3. Do
Community
Profile
/People group
7. Share Testimony &
Stories.
Start Discovery Bible
study
6. Create
Relationship
Through
service
4. Send Spies
5. Identify
Person/
Family of
Peace
CHURCH GROWTH TYPES
People are inspired
and saved
Elephant Type Church
•Big
• Lots of Programs
• Holy Atmosphere (“church-like”)
・Stained glass
・Choir
・Good preaching
Slow to Multiply
•Fertile four time a year
•One baby per pregnancy (22 month gestation period)
•Sexual Maturity … 18 Years
Indispensable
Need to grow
One Pair of Elephants
One Pair of Elephants
…The family grows from 2 to 3
Each
5,500 kg
Total
16,500 kg
Rabbit Type Church
•Small Group Oriented
•Scripture is Primary Source of all Teaching
Rabbits are small,
Multiply Rapidly
Rabbits
• Practically continuously fertile
• Average of 7 babies per pregnancy
(1 month gestation period)
• Sexual Maturity… 4 months
… 3 years… Two Rabbits
In
become…
Each
1 kg
Total
476,000,000
kg
476 Million
SPECK
S – Is there a Sin to avoid or confess?
P – Is there a promise, a prayer, or praise in this
passage?
E – Is there an example to follow (or not follow)?
C – Is there a command to obey?
K – Is there knowledge that I need to retain?
What are we going to do with what we have learned
TODAY?
Text
John 3:16-17
What do you
understand?
How can you
Obey?
How can you
teach others to
Obey?
John 3:16 -17
"For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world
through him.
Slide 7
By
Pastor Shodankeh Johnson
INTRODUCTION
THE PRESENT SCENARIO
Encountering the World of Islam
1/5 of humanity bows to Islam’s Allah
20% of the world are Muslims
60% of the worlds poor are Muslim
80% of the world’s refugees are Muslim
GO TO
MATTHEW 28:16-20
People
who hate you
People who will want to kill you
Those we love and fear
People who don’t love you
People who are different from you
Go refers to change of heart rather than
just moving
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT CHURCH PLANTING
You will not find “Church Planting Movements”
mentioned anywhere in the Bible. Yet, the first
century world was swirling with new converts and
multiplying indigenous churches planting
churches which are Church Planting Movements.
Let’s take a look at the characteristics of Church
Planting Movements and see what the Bible has
to say about them.
Abundant Gospel Sowing
2 Corinthians 9:6
“…whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
1 Thessalonians 1:8
“The Lord’s message rang out from you…”
All Peoples Will Be Reached
Psalms 67 “Let all the peoples praise you.”
Matthew 24:3, 14 “…and this gospel shall be preached to all
peoples.”
Revelation 5:9 “..you purchased men for God from every tribe…”
Revelation 7:9 “…a multitude that no one could count, from every
nation…”
Revelation 15:4 “All nations will come and worship before you.”
Psalm 96 “Ascribe to the Lord, O families of nations…”
God Will Do It
Philippians 1:6 “He who began…will do it.”
1 Peter 4:11 “…do it with the strength God provides.”
God’s Word
Acts 17:11 “…examined the Scriptures every day to see if…”
HOUSE CHURCHES
Acts 5:42 “…from house to house…”
Acts 8:3 “Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to
house…”
Acts 12:12 “…the house of Mary…where many people had
gathered…”
Romans 16:5 “Greet also the church that meets at their house.”
1 Corinthians 16:19 “…the church that meets at their house.”
Colossians 4:15 “…the church in her house.”
Philemon 2 “…the church that meets in your home.”
Lay Leadership
Psalm 119:97-100 “I have more insight than my teachers…for I obey…”
Jeremiah 1:7 “Do not say, ‘I am only a child…’”
Luke 8:39 “…so the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus…”
Acts 4:13 “…they were unschooled, ordinary men.”
1 Corinthians 1:26 “…not many were wise by human standards…”
2 Corinthians 3:4-5 “Not that we are competent in ourselves…”
1 Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young.”
1 Peter 2:9-10 “…you are a royal priesthood…”
1 Peter 4:10-11 “Each one should use whatever gift he has…”
Indigenous Leadership
2
Model, Equip, Watch & Leave
Timothy 2:2 “…entrust to reliable men…”
Titus
1:5 “…appoint elders in every town…
Multiple Church Leaders
1 Corinthians 12:7 “Now to each one…the Spirit is given for the common
good.
1 Corinthians 14:26 “…everyone has a hymn, or a word…a revelation…’”
Ephesians 4:11-16 “…some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some…”
Oikos Evangelism
- Community Implications to Evangelism
Acts 16:15 “…she and the members of her household were baptized.”
Acts 16:31 “…you will be saved—you and your household.”
Paradigm Shift
Habakkuk 1:5 “…you would not believe even if you were
told.”
Matt. 9:17 “…new wineskins”
Romans 12:1 “Be not conformed to this world…”
Jonah 1-4 -The reluctant missionary
Persecution and Suffering
Matthew 10:17-25 “A student is not above his teacher.”
2 Corinthians 11:23-29 “I have known hunger and thirst.”
1 Peter 4:12-13 “Do not be surprised [that] you are
suffering.”
Revelation 6:9-11 “How long [until] you avenge our blood?”
Revelation 12:10-12 “He is filled with fury, he knows his
time
is short.”
PRAYER
Psalms 2:8 “…ask of me and I will give you the ends of
the earth.”
Luke 5:16 “…Jesus often went off to a lonely place and
prayed.”
Luke 6:12 “…Jesus…spent the night praying to God…”
RAPID SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL
Acts 2:47 “…the Lord added to their number daily
those…being saved.”
Acts 19:20 “In this way the word of the Lord spread widely
and grew in power.”
Rapid Assimilation of New Believers
Acts 2:41 “Those who accepted his message were
baptized…that day.”
Acts8:26-39 “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”
Acts 16:5 “…the churches…grew daily in numbers.”
Acts 18:5 “…grew daily in numbers.”
Remove Obstacles
Luke 3:4-6 “…make straight the way of the Lord…”
The Man of Peace, Opening New Work
Luke 10:1-18 …when you enter a town…”
Unreached People Groups
Matthew 18:12-13 - Parable of the Lost Sheep
Romans 15:20-23 “…my ambition to preach where Christ
was
not known”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
1. Start with prayer – know the mind of God and join Him in His
work
2. Everything is grounded in Scripture
3. Focus is on households, not individuals
4. Make Disciples, not converts
5. Teach obedience-based discipleship, not knowledge-based
6. Plan your work and work your plan – be intentional in
Evangelism and Church Planting
CRITICAL ELEMENT
7. Start with the Man of Peace or an existing relationship that will
permit a Discovery Bible Study or Witness
8. Form new believers into minimum practice groups that will
become churches
9. Develop a group DNA of urgent obedience that will reach out
to “ALL”
10. Develop a group DNA of rapidly reproducing disciples,
leaders, groups and churches
11. Training is done “On the Job”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
12. Keep all things reproducible by local leaders
13. Use unpaid local leaders to start new groups
14. Authority of Scripture and the Holy Spirit are all that is needed
to start
15. Do not require cultural suicide
16. Persecution is part of being a Christian
17. Discipleship and Training are continuous and primarily done
through mentoring
18. Model, Equip, Watch, and Leave
COUNTER INTUITIVE
1. Go slow at first to go fast later… focus on few to win may
2. Stay only where Jesus has prepared someone’s heart to hear
and obey
3. Do not focus on personal evangelism… focus on evangelizing
the whole community through families
4. Start with creation not Christ
5. Disciple people to conversion… not vice versa
6. A novice insider will produce more fruit than a highly trained
outsider
COUNTER INTUITIVE
7. Prepare to spend a long time making strong disciples, but
anticipate miracle accelerations
8. The best time for a church to plant a new church is when it is
brand new
9. Focus on discipling ordinary people not developing
”Professional” Christians
10. Expect the hardest places to yield the greatest result
11. Small for-profit project often yield much higher long term
access to resistant areas than free services
9. Train,
Coach,
Mentor,
watch and
Leave
1. Identify
Community
2. Pray for
Community
8. Identify
Natural Local
Leader(S)
Baptize, believing
families, Plant a
Church
3. Do
Community
Profile
/People group
7. Share Testimony &
Stories.
Start Discovery Bible
study
6. Create
Relationship
Through
service
4. Send Spies
5. Identify
Person/
Family of
Peace
CHURCH GROWTH TYPES
People are inspired
and saved
Elephant Type Church
•Big
• Lots of Programs
• Holy Atmosphere (“church-like”)
・Stained glass
・Choir
・Good preaching
Slow to Multiply
•Fertile four time a year
•One baby per pregnancy (22 month gestation period)
•Sexual Maturity … 18 Years
Indispensable
Need to grow
One Pair of Elephants
One Pair of Elephants
…The family grows from 2 to 3
Each
5,500 kg
Total
16,500 kg
Rabbit Type Church
•Small Group Oriented
•Scripture is Primary Source of all Teaching
Rabbits are small,
Multiply Rapidly
Rabbits
• Practically continuously fertile
• Average of 7 babies per pregnancy
(1 month gestation period)
• Sexual Maturity… 4 months
… 3 years… Two Rabbits
In
become…
Each
1 kg
Total
476,000,000
kg
476 Million
SPECK
S – Is there a Sin to avoid or confess?
P – Is there a promise, a prayer, or praise in this
passage?
E – Is there an example to follow (or not follow)?
C – Is there a command to obey?
K – Is there knowledge that I need to retain?
What are we going to do with what we have learned
TODAY?
Text
John 3:16-17
What do you
understand?
How can you
Obey?
How can you
teach others to
Obey?
John 3:16 -17
"For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world
through him.
Slide 8
By
Pastor Shodankeh Johnson
INTRODUCTION
THE PRESENT SCENARIO
Encountering the World of Islam
1/5 of humanity bows to Islam’s Allah
20% of the world are Muslims
60% of the worlds poor are Muslim
80% of the world’s refugees are Muslim
GO TO
MATTHEW 28:16-20
People
who hate you
People who will want to kill you
Those we love and fear
People who don’t love you
People who are different from you
Go refers to change of heart rather than
just moving
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT CHURCH PLANTING
You will not find “Church Planting Movements”
mentioned anywhere in the Bible. Yet, the first
century world was swirling with new converts and
multiplying indigenous churches planting
churches which are Church Planting Movements.
Let’s take a look at the characteristics of Church
Planting Movements and see what the Bible has
to say about them.
Abundant Gospel Sowing
2 Corinthians 9:6
“…whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
1 Thessalonians 1:8
“The Lord’s message rang out from you…”
All Peoples Will Be Reached
Psalms 67 “Let all the peoples praise you.”
Matthew 24:3, 14 “…and this gospel shall be preached to all
peoples.”
Revelation 5:9 “..you purchased men for God from every tribe…”
Revelation 7:9 “…a multitude that no one could count, from every
nation…”
Revelation 15:4 “All nations will come and worship before you.”
Psalm 96 “Ascribe to the Lord, O families of nations…”
God Will Do It
Philippians 1:6 “He who began…will do it.”
1 Peter 4:11 “…do it with the strength God provides.”
God’s Word
Acts 17:11 “…examined the Scriptures every day to see if…”
HOUSE CHURCHES
Acts 5:42 “…from house to house…”
Acts 8:3 “Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to
house…”
Acts 12:12 “…the house of Mary…where many people had
gathered…”
Romans 16:5 “Greet also the church that meets at their house.”
1 Corinthians 16:19 “…the church that meets at their house.”
Colossians 4:15 “…the church in her house.”
Philemon 2 “…the church that meets in your home.”
Lay Leadership
Psalm 119:97-100 “I have more insight than my teachers…for I obey…”
Jeremiah 1:7 “Do not say, ‘I am only a child…’”
Luke 8:39 “…so the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus…”
Acts 4:13 “…they were unschooled, ordinary men.”
1 Corinthians 1:26 “…not many were wise by human standards…”
2 Corinthians 3:4-5 “Not that we are competent in ourselves…”
1 Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young.”
1 Peter 2:9-10 “…you are a royal priesthood…”
1 Peter 4:10-11 “Each one should use whatever gift he has…”
Indigenous Leadership
2
Model, Equip, Watch & Leave
Timothy 2:2 “…entrust to reliable men…”
Titus
1:5 “…appoint elders in every town…
Multiple Church Leaders
1 Corinthians 12:7 “Now to each one…the Spirit is given for the common
good.
1 Corinthians 14:26 “…everyone has a hymn, or a word…a revelation…’”
Ephesians 4:11-16 “…some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some…”
Oikos Evangelism
- Community Implications to Evangelism
Acts 16:15 “…she and the members of her household were baptized.”
Acts 16:31 “…you will be saved—you and your household.”
Paradigm Shift
Habakkuk 1:5 “…you would not believe even if you were
told.”
Matt. 9:17 “…new wineskins”
Romans 12:1 “Be not conformed to this world…”
Jonah 1-4 -The reluctant missionary
Persecution and Suffering
Matthew 10:17-25 “A student is not above his teacher.”
2 Corinthians 11:23-29 “I have known hunger and thirst.”
1 Peter 4:12-13 “Do not be surprised [that] you are
suffering.”
Revelation 6:9-11 “How long [until] you avenge our blood?”
Revelation 12:10-12 “He is filled with fury, he knows his
time
is short.”
PRAYER
Psalms 2:8 “…ask of me and I will give you the ends of
the earth.”
Luke 5:16 “…Jesus often went off to a lonely place and
prayed.”
Luke 6:12 “…Jesus…spent the night praying to God…”
RAPID SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL
Acts 2:47 “…the Lord added to their number daily
those…being saved.”
Acts 19:20 “In this way the word of the Lord spread widely
and grew in power.”
Rapid Assimilation of New Believers
Acts 2:41 “Those who accepted his message were
baptized…that day.”
Acts8:26-39 “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”
Acts 16:5 “…the churches…grew daily in numbers.”
Acts 18:5 “…grew daily in numbers.”
Remove Obstacles
Luke 3:4-6 “…make straight the way of the Lord…”
The Man of Peace, Opening New Work
Luke 10:1-18 …when you enter a town…”
Unreached People Groups
Matthew 18:12-13 - Parable of the Lost Sheep
Romans 15:20-23 “…my ambition to preach where Christ
was
not known”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
1. Start with prayer – know the mind of God and join Him in His
work
2. Everything is grounded in Scripture
3. Focus is on households, not individuals
4. Make Disciples, not converts
5. Teach obedience-based discipleship, not knowledge-based
6. Plan your work and work your plan – be intentional in
Evangelism and Church Planting
CRITICAL ELEMENT
7. Start with the Man of Peace or an existing relationship that will
permit a Discovery Bible Study or Witness
8. Form new believers into minimum practice groups that will
become churches
9. Develop a group DNA of urgent obedience that will reach out
to “ALL”
10. Develop a group DNA of rapidly reproducing disciples,
leaders, groups and churches
11. Training is done “On the Job”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
12. Keep all things reproducible by local leaders
13. Use unpaid local leaders to start new groups
14. Authority of Scripture and the Holy Spirit are all that is needed
to start
15. Do not require cultural suicide
16. Persecution is part of being a Christian
17. Discipleship and Training are continuous and primarily done
through mentoring
18. Model, Equip, Watch, and Leave
COUNTER INTUITIVE
1. Go slow at first to go fast later… focus on few to win may
2. Stay only where Jesus has prepared someone’s heart to hear
and obey
3. Do not focus on personal evangelism… focus on evangelizing
the whole community through families
4. Start with creation not Christ
5. Disciple people to conversion… not vice versa
6. A novice insider will produce more fruit than a highly trained
outsider
COUNTER INTUITIVE
7. Prepare to spend a long time making strong disciples, but
anticipate miracle accelerations
8. The best time for a church to plant a new church is when it is
brand new
9. Focus on discipling ordinary people not developing
”Professional” Christians
10. Expect the hardest places to yield the greatest result
11. Small for-profit project often yield much higher long term
access to resistant areas than free services
9. Train,
Coach,
Mentor,
watch and
Leave
1. Identify
Community
2. Pray for
Community
8. Identify
Natural Local
Leader(S)
Baptize, believing
families, Plant a
Church
3. Do
Community
Profile
/People group
7. Share Testimony &
Stories.
Start Discovery Bible
study
6. Create
Relationship
Through
service
4. Send Spies
5. Identify
Person/
Family of
Peace
CHURCH GROWTH TYPES
People are inspired
and saved
Elephant Type Church
•Big
• Lots of Programs
• Holy Atmosphere (“church-like”)
・Stained glass
・Choir
・Good preaching
Slow to Multiply
•Fertile four time a year
•One baby per pregnancy (22 month gestation period)
•Sexual Maturity … 18 Years
Indispensable
Need to grow
One Pair of Elephants
One Pair of Elephants
…The family grows from 2 to 3
Each
5,500 kg
Total
16,500 kg
Rabbit Type Church
•Small Group Oriented
•Scripture is Primary Source of all Teaching
Rabbits are small,
Multiply Rapidly
Rabbits
• Practically continuously fertile
• Average of 7 babies per pregnancy
(1 month gestation period)
• Sexual Maturity… 4 months
… 3 years… Two Rabbits
In
become…
Each
1 kg
Total
476,000,000
kg
476 Million
SPECK
S – Is there a Sin to avoid or confess?
P – Is there a promise, a prayer, or praise in this
passage?
E – Is there an example to follow (or not follow)?
C – Is there a command to obey?
K – Is there knowledge that I need to retain?
What are we going to do with what we have learned
TODAY?
Text
John 3:16-17
What do you
understand?
How can you
Obey?
How can you
teach others to
Obey?
John 3:16 -17
"For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world
through him.
Slide 9
By
Pastor Shodankeh Johnson
INTRODUCTION
THE PRESENT SCENARIO
Encountering the World of Islam
1/5 of humanity bows to Islam’s Allah
20% of the world are Muslims
60% of the worlds poor are Muslim
80% of the world’s refugees are Muslim
GO TO
MATTHEW 28:16-20
People
who hate you
People who will want to kill you
Those we love and fear
People who don’t love you
People who are different from you
Go refers to change of heart rather than
just moving
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT CHURCH PLANTING
You will not find “Church Planting Movements”
mentioned anywhere in the Bible. Yet, the first
century world was swirling with new converts and
multiplying indigenous churches planting
churches which are Church Planting Movements.
Let’s take a look at the characteristics of Church
Planting Movements and see what the Bible has
to say about them.
Abundant Gospel Sowing
2 Corinthians 9:6
“…whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
1 Thessalonians 1:8
“The Lord’s message rang out from you…”
All Peoples Will Be Reached
Psalms 67 “Let all the peoples praise you.”
Matthew 24:3, 14 “…and this gospel shall be preached to all
peoples.”
Revelation 5:9 “..you purchased men for God from every tribe…”
Revelation 7:9 “…a multitude that no one could count, from every
nation…”
Revelation 15:4 “All nations will come and worship before you.”
Psalm 96 “Ascribe to the Lord, O families of nations…”
God Will Do It
Philippians 1:6 “He who began…will do it.”
1 Peter 4:11 “…do it with the strength God provides.”
God’s Word
Acts 17:11 “…examined the Scriptures every day to see if…”
HOUSE CHURCHES
Acts 5:42 “…from house to house…”
Acts 8:3 “Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to
house…”
Acts 12:12 “…the house of Mary…where many people had
gathered…”
Romans 16:5 “Greet also the church that meets at their house.”
1 Corinthians 16:19 “…the church that meets at their house.”
Colossians 4:15 “…the church in her house.”
Philemon 2 “…the church that meets in your home.”
Lay Leadership
Psalm 119:97-100 “I have more insight than my teachers…for I obey…”
Jeremiah 1:7 “Do not say, ‘I am only a child…’”
Luke 8:39 “…so the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus…”
Acts 4:13 “…they were unschooled, ordinary men.”
1 Corinthians 1:26 “…not many were wise by human standards…”
2 Corinthians 3:4-5 “Not that we are competent in ourselves…”
1 Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young.”
1 Peter 2:9-10 “…you are a royal priesthood…”
1 Peter 4:10-11 “Each one should use whatever gift he has…”
Indigenous Leadership
2
Model, Equip, Watch & Leave
Timothy 2:2 “…entrust to reliable men…”
Titus
1:5 “…appoint elders in every town…
Multiple Church Leaders
1 Corinthians 12:7 “Now to each one…the Spirit is given for the common
good.
1 Corinthians 14:26 “…everyone has a hymn, or a word…a revelation…’”
Ephesians 4:11-16 “…some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some…”
Oikos Evangelism
- Community Implications to Evangelism
Acts 16:15 “…she and the members of her household were baptized.”
Acts 16:31 “…you will be saved—you and your household.”
Paradigm Shift
Habakkuk 1:5 “…you would not believe even if you were
told.”
Matt. 9:17 “…new wineskins”
Romans 12:1 “Be not conformed to this world…”
Jonah 1-4 -The reluctant missionary
Persecution and Suffering
Matthew 10:17-25 “A student is not above his teacher.”
2 Corinthians 11:23-29 “I have known hunger and thirst.”
1 Peter 4:12-13 “Do not be surprised [that] you are
suffering.”
Revelation 6:9-11 “How long [until] you avenge our blood?”
Revelation 12:10-12 “He is filled with fury, he knows his
time
is short.”
PRAYER
Psalms 2:8 “…ask of me and I will give you the ends of
the earth.”
Luke 5:16 “…Jesus often went off to a lonely place and
prayed.”
Luke 6:12 “…Jesus…spent the night praying to God…”
RAPID SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL
Acts 2:47 “…the Lord added to their number daily
those…being saved.”
Acts 19:20 “In this way the word of the Lord spread widely
and grew in power.”
Rapid Assimilation of New Believers
Acts 2:41 “Those who accepted his message were
baptized…that day.”
Acts8:26-39 “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”
Acts 16:5 “…the churches…grew daily in numbers.”
Acts 18:5 “…grew daily in numbers.”
Remove Obstacles
Luke 3:4-6 “…make straight the way of the Lord…”
The Man of Peace, Opening New Work
Luke 10:1-18 …when you enter a town…”
Unreached People Groups
Matthew 18:12-13 - Parable of the Lost Sheep
Romans 15:20-23 “…my ambition to preach where Christ
was
not known”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
1. Start with prayer – know the mind of God and join Him in His
work
2. Everything is grounded in Scripture
3. Focus is on households, not individuals
4. Make Disciples, not converts
5. Teach obedience-based discipleship, not knowledge-based
6. Plan your work and work your plan – be intentional in
Evangelism and Church Planting
CRITICAL ELEMENT
7. Start with the Man of Peace or an existing relationship that will
permit a Discovery Bible Study or Witness
8. Form new believers into minimum practice groups that will
become churches
9. Develop a group DNA of urgent obedience that will reach out
to “ALL”
10. Develop a group DNA of rapidly reproducing disciples,
leaders, groups and churches
11. Training is done “On the Job”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
12. Keep all things reproducible by local leaders
13. Use unpaid local leaders to start new groups
14. Authority of Scripture and the Holy Spirit are all that is needed
to start
15. Do not require cultural suicide
16. Persecution is part of being a Christian
17. Discipleship and Training are continuous and primarily done
through mentoring
18. Model, Equip, Watch, and Leave
COUNTER INTUITIVE
1. Go slow at first to go fast later… focus on few to win may
2. Stay only where Jesus has prepared someone’s heart to hear
and obey
3. Do not focus on personal evangelism… focus on evangelizing
the whole community through families
4. Start with creation not Christ
5. Disciple people to conversion… not vice versa
6. A novice insider will produce more fruit than a highly trained
outsider
COUNTER INTUITIVE
7. Prepare to spend a long time making strong disciples, but
anticipate miracle accelerations
8. The best time for a church to plant a new church is when it is
brand new
9. Focus on discipling ordinary people not developing
”Professional” Christians
10. Expect the hardest places to yield the greatest result
11. Small for-profit project often yield much higher long term
access to resistant areas than free services
9. Train,
Coach,
Mentor,
watch and
Leave
1. Identify
Community
2. Pray for
Community
8. Identify
Natural Local
Leader(S)
Baptize, believing
families, Plant a
Church
3. Do
Community
Profile
/People group
7. Share Testimony &
Stories.
Start Discovery Bible
study
6. Create
Relationship
Through
service
4. Send Spies
5. Identify
Person/
Family of
Peace
CHURCH GROWTH TYPES
People are inspired
and saved
Elephant Type Church
•Big
• Lots of Programs
• Holy Atmosphere (“church-like”)
・Stained glass
・Choir
・Good preaching
Slow to Multiply
•Fertile four time a year
•One baby per pregnancy (22 month gestation period)
•Sexual Maturity … 18 Years
Indispensable
Need to grow
One Pair of Elephants
One Pair of Elephants
…The family grows from 2 to 3
Each
5,500 kg
Total
16,500 kg
Rabbit Type Church
•Small Group Oriented
•Scripture is Primary Source of all Teaching
Rabbits are small,
Multiply Rapidly
Rabbits
• Practically continuously fertile
• Average of 7 babies per pregnancy
(1 month gestation period)
• Sexual Maturity… 4 months
… 3 years… Two Rabbits
In
become…
Each
1 kg
Total
476,000,000
kg
476 Million
SPECK
S – Is there a Sin to avoid or confess?
P – Is there a promise, a prayer, or praise in this
passage?
E – Is there an example to follow (or not follow)?
C – Is there a command to obey?
K – Is there knowledge that I need to retain?
What are we going to do with what we have learned
TODAY?
Text
John 3:16-17
What do you
understand?
How can you
Obey?
How can you
teach others to
Obey?
John 3:16 -17
"For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world
through him.
Slide 10
By
Pastor Shodankeh Johnson
INTRODUCTION
THE PRESENT SCENARIO
Encountering the World of Islam
1/5 of humanity bows to Islam’s Allah
20% of the world are Muslims
60% of the worlds poor are Muslim
80% of the world’s refugees are Muslim
GO TO
MATTHEW 28:16-20
People
who hate you
People who will want to kill you
Those we love and fear
People who don’t love you
People who are different from you
Go refers to change of heart rather than
just moving
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT CHURCH PLANTING
You will not find “Church Planting Movements”
mentioned anywhere in the Bible. Yet, the first
century world was swirling with new converts and
multiplying indigenous churches planting
churches which are Church Planting Movements.
Let’s take a look at the characteristics of Church
Planting Movements and see what the Bible has
to say about them.
Abundant Gospel Sowing
2 Corinthians 9:6
“…whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
1 Thessalonians 1:8
“The Lord’s message rang out from you…”
All Peoples Will Be Reached
Psalms 67 “Let all the peoples praise you.”
Matthew 24:3, 14 “…and this gospel shall be preached to all
peoples.”
Revelation 5:9 “..you purchased men for God from every tribe…”
Revelation 7:9 “…a multitude that no one could count, from every
nation…”
Revelation 15:4 “All nations will come and worship before you.”
Psalm 96 “Ascribe to the Lord, O families of nations…”
God Will Do It
Philippians 1:6 “He who began…will do it.”
1 Peter 4:11 “…do it with the strength God provides.”
God’s Word
Acts 17:11 “…examined the Scriptures every day to see if…”
HOUSE CHURCHES
Acts 5:42 “…from house to house…”
Acts 8:3 “Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to
house…”
Acts 12:12 “…the house of Mary…where many people had
gathered…”
Romans 16:5 “Greet also the church that meets at their house.”
1 Corinthians 16:19 “…the church that meets at their house.”
Colossians 4:15 “…the church in her house.”
Philemon 2 “…the church that meets in your home.”
Lay Leadership
Psalm 119:97-100 “I have more insight than my teachers…for I obey…”
Jeremiah 1:7 “Do not say, ‘I am only a child…’”
Luke 8:39 “…so the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus…”
Acts 4:13 “…they were unschooled, ordinary men.”
1 Corinthians 1:26 “…not many were wise by human standards…”
2 Corinthians 3:4-5 “Not that we are competent in ourselves…”
1 Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young.”
1 Peter 2:9-10 “…you are a royal priesthood…”
1 Peter 4:10-11 “Each one should use whatever gift he has…”
Indigenous Leadership
2
Model, Equip, Watch & Leave
Timothy 2:2 “…entrust to reliable men…”
Titus
1:5 “…appoint elders in every town…
Multiple Church Leaders
1 Corinthians 12:7 “Now to each one…the Spirit is given for the common
good.
1 Corinthians 14:26 “…everyone has a hymn, or a word…a revelation…’”
Ephesians 4:11-16 “…some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some…”
Oikos Evangelism
- Community Implications to Evangelism
Acts 16:15 “…she and the members of her household were baptized.”
Acts 16:31 “…you will be saved—you and your household.”
Paradigm Shift
Habakkuk 1:5 “…you would not believe even if you were
told.”
Matt. 9:17 “…new wineskins”
Romans 12:1 “Be not conformed to this world…”
Jonah 1-4 -The reluctant missionary
Persecution and Suffering
Matthew 10:17-25 “A student is not above his teacher.”
2 Corinthians 11:23-29 “I have known hunger and thirst.”
1 Peter 4:12-13 “Do not be surprised [that] you are
suffering.”
Revelation 6:9-11 “How long [until] you avenge our blood?”
Revelation 12:10-12 “He is filled with fury, he knows his
time
is short.”
PRAYER
Psalms 2:8 “…ask of me and I will give you the ends of
the earth.”
Luke 5:16 “…Jesus often went off to a lonely place and
prayed.”
Luke 6:12 “…Jesus…spent the night praying to God…”
RAPID SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL
Acts 2:47 “…the Lord added to their number daily
those…being saved.”
Acts 19:20 “In this way the word of the Lord spread widely
and grew in power.”
Rapid Assimilation of New Believers
Acts 2:41 “Those who accepted his message were
baptized…that day.”
Acts8:26-39 “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”
Acts 16:5 “…the churches…grew daily in numbers.”
Acts 18:5 “…grew daily in numbers.”
Remove Obstacles
Luke 3:4-6 “…make straight the way of the Lord…”
The Man of Peace, Opening New Work
Luke 10:1-18 …when you enter a town…”
Unreached People Groups
Matthew 18:12-13 - Parable of the Lost Sheep
Romans 15:20-23 “…my ambition to preach where Christ
was
not known”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
1. Start with prayer – know the mind of God and join Him in His
work
2. Everything is grounded in Scripture
3. Focus is on households, not individuals
4. Make Disciples, not converts
5. Teach obedience-based discipleship, not knowledge-based
6. Plan your work and work your plan – be intentional in
Evangelism and Church Planting
CRITICAL ELEMENT
7. Start with the Man of Peace or an existing relationship that will
permit a Discovery Bible Study or Witness
8. Form new believers into minimum practice groups that will
become churches
9. Develop a group DNA of urgent obedience that will reach out
to “ALL”
10. Develop a group DNA of rapidly reproducing disciples,
leaders, groups and churches
11. Training is done “On the Job”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
12. Keep all things reproducible by local leaders
13. Use unpaid local leaders to start new groups
14. Authority of Scripture and the Holy Spirit are all that is needed
to start
15. Do not require cultural suicide
16. Persecution is part of being a Christian
17. Discipleship and Training are continuous and primarily done
through mentoring
18. Model, Equip, Watch, and Leave
COUNTER INTUITIVE
1. Go slow at first to go fast later… focus on few to win may
2. Stay only where Jesus has prepared someone’s heart to hear
and obey
3. Do not focus on personal evangelism… focus on evangelizing
the whole community through families
4. Start with creation not Christ
5. Disciple people to conversion… not vice versa
6. A novice insider will produce more fruit than a highly trained
outsider
COUNTER INTUITIVE
7. Prepare to spend a long time making strong disciples, but
anticipate miracle accelerations
8. The best time for a church to plant a new church is when it is
brand new
9. Focus on discipling ordinary people not developing
”Professional” Christians
10. Expect the hardest places to yield the greatest result
11. Small for-profit project often yield much higher long term
access to resistant areas than free services
9. Train,
Coach,
Mentor,
watch and
Leave
1. Identify
Community
2. Pray for
Community
8. Identify
Natural Local
Leader(S)
Baptize, believing
families, Plant a
Church
3. Do
Community
Profile
/People group
7. Share Testimony &
Stories.
Start Discovery Bible
study
6. Create
Relationship
Through
service
4. Send Spies
5. Identify
Person/
Family of
Peace
CHURCH GROWTH TYPES
People are inspired
and saved
Elephant Type Church
•Big
• Lots of Programs
• Holy Atmosphere (“church-like”)
・Stained glass
・Choir
・Good preaching
Slow to Multiply
•Fertile four time a year
•One baby per pregnancy (22 month gestation period)
•Sexual Maturity … 18 Years
Indispensable
Need to grow
One Pair of Elephants
One Pair of Elephants
…The family grows from 2 to 3
Each
5,500 kg
Total
16,500 kg
Rabbit Type Church
•Small Group Oriented
•Scripture is Primary Source of all Teaching
Rabbits are small,
Multiply Rapidly
Rabbits
• Practically continuously fertile
• Average of 7 babies per pregnancy
(1 month gestation period)
• Sexual Maturity… 4 months
… 3 years… Two Rabbits
In
become…
Each
1 kg
Total
476,000,000
kg
476 Million
SPECK
S – Is there a Sin to avoid or confess?
P – Is there a promise, a prayer, or praise in this
passage?
E – Is there an example to follow (or not follow)?
C – Is there a command to obey?
K – Is there knowledge that I need to retain?
What are we going to do with what we have learned
TODAY?
Text
John 3:16-17
What do you
understand?
How can you
Obey?
How can you
teach others to
Obey?
John 3:16 -17
"For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world
through him.
Slide 11
By
Pastor Shodankeh Johnson
INTRODUCTION
THE PRESENT SCENARIO
Encountering the World of Islam
1/5 of humanity bows to Islam’s Allah
20% of the world are Muslims
60% of the worlds poor are Muslim
80% of the world’s refugees are Muslim
GO TO
MATTHEW 28:16-20
People
who hate you
People who will want to kill you
Those we love and fear
People who don’t love you
People who are different from you
Go refers to change of heart rather than
just moving
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT CHURCH PLANTING
You will not find “Church Planting Movements”
mentioned anywhere in the Bible. Yet, the first
century world was swirling with new converts and
multiplying indigenous churches planting
churches which are Church Planting Movements.
Let’s take a look at the characteristics of Church
Planting Movements and see what the Bible has
to say about them.
Abundant Gospel Sowing
2 Corinthians 9:6
“…whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
1 Thessalonians 1:8
“The Lord’s message rang out from you…”
All Peoples Will Be Reached
Psalms 67 “Let all the peoples praise you.”
Matthew 24:3, 14 “…and this gospel shall be preached to all
peoples.”
Revelation 5:9 “..you purchased men for God from every tribe…”
Revelation 7:9 “…a multitude that no one could count, from every
nation…”
Revelation 15:4 “All nations will come and worship before you.”
Psalm 96 “Ascribe to the Lord, O families of nations…”
God Will Do It
Philippians 1:6 “He who began…will do it.”
1 Peter 4:11 “…do it with the strength God provides.”
God’s Word
Acts 17:11 “…examined the Scriptures every day to see if…”
HOUSE CHURCHES
Acts 5:42 “…from house to house…”
Acts 8:3 “Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to
house…”
Acts 12:12 “…the house of Mary…where many people had
gathered…”
Romans 16:5 “Greet also the church that meets at their house.”
1 Corinthians 16:19 “…the church that meets at their house.”
Colossians 4:15 “…the church in her house.”
Philemon 2 “…the church that meets in your home.”
Lay Leadership
Psalm 119:97-100 “I have more insight than my teachers…for I obey…”
Jeremiah 1:7 “Do not say, ‘I am only a child…’”
Luke 8:39 “…so the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus…”
Acts 4:13 “…they were unschooled, ordinary men.”
1 Corinthians 1:26 “…not many were wise by human standards…”
2 Corinthians 3:4-5 “Not that we are competent in ourselves…”
1 Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young.”
1 Peter 2:9-10 “…you are a royal priesthood…”
1 Peter 4:10-11 “Each one should use whatever gift he has…”
Indigenous Leadership
2
Model, Equip, Watch & Leave
Timothy 2:2 “…entrust to reliable men…”
Titus
1:5 “…appoint elders in every town…
Multiple Church Leaders
1 Corinthians 12:7 “Now to each one…the Spirit is given for the common
good.
1 Corinthians 14:26 “…everyone has a hymn, or a word…a revelation…’”
Ephesians 4:11-16 “…some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some…”
Oikos Evangelism
- Community Implications to Evangelism
Acts 16:15 “…she and the members of her household were baptized.”
Acts 16:31 “…you will be saved—you and your household.”
Paradigm Shift
Habakkuk 1:5 “…you would not believe even if you were
told.”
Matt. 9:17 “…new wineskins”
Romans 12:1 “Be not conformed to this world…”
Jonah 1-4 -The reluctant missionary
Persecution and Suffering
Matthew 10:17-25 “A student is not above his teacher.”
2 Corinthians 11:23-29 “I have known hunger and thirst.”
1 Peter 4:12-13 “Do not be surprised [that] you are
suffering.”
Revelation 6:9-11 “How long [until] you avenge our blood?”
Revelation 12:10-12 “He is filled with fury, he knows his
time
is short.”
PRAYER
Psalms 2:8 “…ask of me and I will give you the ends of
the earth.”
Luke 5:16 “…Jesus often went off to a lonely place and
prayed.”
Luke 6:12 “…Jesus…spent the night praying to God…”
RAPID SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL
Acts 2:47 “…the Lord added to their number daily
those…being saved.”
Acts 19:20 “In this way the word of the Lord spread widely
and grew in power.”
Rapid Assimilation of New Believers
Acts 2:41 “Those who accepted his message were
baptized…that day.”
Acts8:26-39 “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”
Acts 16:5 “…the churches…grew daily in numbers.”
Acts 18:5 “…grew daily in numbers.”
Remove Obstacles
Luke 3:4-6 “…make straight the way of the Lord…”
The Man of Peace, Opening New Work
Luke 10:1-18 …when you enter a town…”
Unreached People Groups
Matthew 18:12-13 - Parable of the Lost Sheep
Romans 15:20-23 “…my ambition to preach where Christ
was
not known”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
1. Start with prayer – know the mind of God and join Him in His
work
2. Everything is grounded in Scripture
3. Focus is on households, not individuals
4. Make Disciples, not converts
5. Teach obedience-based discipleship, not knowledge-based
6. Plan your work and work your plan – be intentional in
Evangelism and Church Planting
CRITICAL ELEMENT
7. Start with the Man of Peace or an existing relationship that will
permit a Discovery Bible Study or Witness
8. Form new believers into minimum practice groups that will
become churches
9. Develop a group DNA of urgent obedience that will reach out
to “ALL”
10. Develop a group DNA of rapidly reproducing disciples,
leaders, groups and churches
11. Training is done “On the Job”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
12. Keep all things reproducible by local leaders
13. Use unpaid local leaders to start new groups
14. Authority of Scripture and the Holy Spirit are all that is needed
to start
15. Do not require cultural suicide
16. Persecution is part of being a Christian
17. Discipleship and Training are continuous and primarily done
through mentoring
18. Model, Equip, Watch, and Leave
COUNTER INTUITIVE
1. Go slow at first to go fast later… focus on few to win may
2. Stay only where Jesus has prepared someone’s heart to hear
and obey
3. Do not focus on personal evangelism… focus on evangelizing
the whole community through families
4. Start with creation not Christ
5. Disciple people to conversion… not vice versa
6. A novice insider will produce more fruit than a highly trained
outsider
COUNTER INTUITIVE
7. Prepare to spend a long time making strong disciples, but
anticipate miracle accelerations
8. The best time for a church to plant a new church is when it is
brand new
9. Focus on discipling ordinary people not developing
”Professional” Christians
10. Expect the hardest places to yield the greatest result
11. Small for-profit project often yield much higher long term
access to resistant areas than free services
9. Train,
Coach,
Mentor,
watch and
Leave
1. Identify
Community
2. Pray for
Community
8. Identify
Natural Local
Leader(S)
Baptize, believing
families, Plant a
Church
3. Do
Community
Profile
/People group
7. Share Testimony &
Stories.
Start Discovery Bible
study
6. Create
Relationship
Through
service
4. Send Spies
5. Identify
Person/
Family of
Peace
CHURCH GROWTH TYPES
People are inspired
and saved
Elephant Type Church
•Big
• Lots of Programs
• Holy Atmosphere (“church-like”)
・Stained glass
・Choir
・Good preaching
Slow to Multiply
•Fertile four time a year
•One baby per pregnancy (22 month gestation period)
•Sexual Maturity … 18 Years
Indispensable
Need to grow
One Pair of Elephants
One Pair of Elephants
…The family grows from 2 to 3
Each
5,500 kg
Total
16,500 kg
Rabbit Type Church
•Small Group Oriented
•Scripture is Primary Source of all Teaching
Rabbits are small,
Multiply Rapidly
Rabbits
• Practically continuously fertile
• Average of 7 babies per pregnancy
(1 month gestation period)
• Sexual Maturity… 4 months
… 3 years… Two Rabbits
In
become…
Each
1 kg
Total
476,000,000
kg
476 Million
SPECK
S – Is there a Sin to avoid or confess?
P – Is there a promise, a prayer, or praise in this
passage?
E – Is there an example to follow (or not follow)?
C – Is there a command to obey?
K – Is there knowledge that I need to retain?
What are we going to do with what we have learned
TODAY?
Text
John 3:16-17
What do you
understand?
How can you
Obey?
How can you
teach others to
Obey?
John 3:16 -17
"For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world
through him.
Slide 12
By
Pastor Shodankeh Johnson
INTRODUCTION
THE PRESENT SCENARIO
Encountering the World of Islam
1/5 of humanity bows to Islam’s Allah
20% of the world are Muslims
60% of the worlds poor are Muslim
80% of the world’s refugees are Muslim
GO TO
MATTHEW 28:16-20
People
who hate you
People who will want to kill you
Those we love and fear
People who don’t love you
People who are different from you
Go refers to change of heart rather than
just moving
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT CHURCH PLANTING
You will not find “Church Planting Movements”
mentioned anywhere in the Bible. Yet, the first
century world was swirling with new converts and
multiplying indigenous churches planting
churches which are Church Planting Movements.
Let’s take a look at the characteristics of Church
Planting Movements and see what the Bible has
to say about them.
Abundant Gospel Sowing
2 Corinthians 9:6
“…whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
1 Thessalonians 1:8
“The Lord’s message rang out from you…”
All Peoples Will Be Reached
Psalms 67 “Let all the peoples praise you.”
Matthew 24:3, 14 “…and this gospel shall be preached to all
peoples.”
Revelation 5:9 “..you purchased men for God from every tribe…”
Revelation 7:9 “…a multitude that no one could count, from every
nation…”
Revelation 15:4 “All nations will come and worship before you.”
Psalm 96 “Ascribe to the Lord, O families of nations…”
God Will Do It
Philippians 1:6 “He who began…will do it.”
1 Peter 4:11 “…do it with the strength God provides.”
God’s Word
Acts 17:11 “…examined the Scriptures every day to see if…”
HOUSE CHURCHES
Acts 5:42 “…from house to house…”
Acts 8:3 “Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to
house…”
Acts 12:12 “…the house of Mary…where many people had
gathered…”
Romans 16:5 “Greet also the church that meets at their house.”
1 Corinthians 16:19 “…the church that meets at their house.”
Colossians 4:15 “…the church in her house.”
Philemon 2 “…the church that meets in your home.”
Lay Leadership
Psalm 119:97-100 “I have more insight than my teachers…for I obey…”
Jeremiah 1:7 “Do not say, ‘I am only a child…’”
Luke 8:39 “…so the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus…”
Acts 4:13 “…they were unschooled, ordinary men.”
1 Corinthians 1:26 “…not many were wise by human standards…”
2 Corinthians 3:4-5 “Not that we are competent in ourselves…”
1 Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young.”
1 Peter 2:9-10 “…you are a royal priesthood…”
1 Peter 4:10-11 “Each one should use whatever gift he has…”
Indigenous Leadership
2
Model, Equip, Watch & Leave
Timothy 2:2 “…entrust to reliable men…”
Titus
1:5 “…appoint elders in every town…
Multiple Church Leaders
1 Corinthians 12:7 “Now to each one…the Spirit is given for the common
good.
1 Corinthians 14:26 “…everyone has a hymn, or a word…a revelation…’”
Ephesians 4:11-16 “…some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some…”
Oikos Evangelism
- Community Implications to Evangelism
Acts 16:15 “…she and the members of her household were baptized.”
Acts 16:31 “…you will be saved—you and your household.”
Paradigm Shift
Habakkuk 1:5 “…you would not believe even if you were
told.”
Matt. 9:17 “…new wineskins”
Romans 12:1 “Be not conformed to this world…”
Jonah 1-4 -The reluctant missionary
Persecution and Suffering
Matthew 10:17-25 “A student is not above his teacher.”
2 Corinthians 11:23-29 “I have known hunger and thirst.”
1 Peter 4:12-13 “Do not be surprised [that] you are
suffering.”
Revelation 6:9-11 “How long [until] you avenge our blood?”
Revelation 12:10-12 “He is filled with fury, he knows his
time
is short.”
PRAYER
Psalms 2:8 “…ask of me and I will give you the ends of
the earth.”
Luke 5:16 “…Jesus often went off to a lonely place and
prayed.”
Luke 6:12 “…Jesus…spent the night praying to God…”
RAPID SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL
Acts 2:47 “…the Lord added to their number daily
those…being saved.”
Acts 19:20 “In this way the word of the Lord spread widely
and grew in power.”
Rapid Assimilation of New Believers
Acts 2:41 “Those who accepted his message were
baptized…that day.”
Acts8:26-39 “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”
Acts 16:5 “…the churches…grew daily in numbers.”
Acts 18:5 “…grew daily in numbers.”
Remove Obstacles
Luke 3:4-6 “…make straight the way of the Lord…”
The Man of Peace, Opening New Work
Luke 10:1-18 …when you enter a town…”
Unreached People Groups
Matthew 18:12-13 - Parable of the Lost Sheep
Romans 15:20-23 “…my ambition to preach where Christ
was
not known”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
1. Start with prayer – know the mind of God and join Him in His
work
2. Everything is grounded in Scripture
3. Focus is on households, not individuals
4. Make Disciples, not converts
5. Teach obedience-based discipleship, not knowledge-based
6. Plan your work and work your plan – be intentional in
Evangelism and Church Planting
CRITICAL ELEMENT
7. Start with the Man of Peace or an existing relationship that will
permit a Discovery Bible Study or Witness
8. Form new believers into minimum practice groups that will
become churches
9. Develop a group DNA of urgent obedience that will reach out
to “ALL”
10. Develop a group DNA of rapidly reproducing disciples,
leaders, groups and churches
11. Training is done “On the Job”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
12. Keep all things reproducible by local leaders
13. Use unpaid local leaders to start new groups
14. Authority of Scripture and the Holy Spirit are all that is needed
to start
15. Do not require cultural suicide
16. Persecution is part of being a Christian
17. Discipleship and Training are continuous and primarily done
through mentoring
18. Model, Equip, Watch, and Leave
COUNTER INTUITIVE
1. Go slow at first to go fast later… focus on few to win may
2. Stay only where Jesus has prepared someone’s heart to hear
and obey
3. Do not focus on personal evangelism… focus on evangelizing
the whole community through families
4. Start with creation not Christ
5. Disciple people to conversion… not vice versa
6. A novice insider will produce more fruit than a highly trained
outsider
COUNTER INTUITIVE
7. Prepare to spend a long time making strong disciples, but
anticipate miracle accelerations
8. The best time for a church to plant a new church is when it is
brand new
9. Focus on discipling ordinary people not developing
”Professional” Christians
10. Expect the hardest places to yield the greatest result
11. Small for-profit project often yield much higher long term
access to resistant areas than free services
9. Train,
Coach,
Mentor,
watch and
Leave
1. Identify
Community
2. Pray for
Community
8. Identify
Natural Local
Leader(S)
Baptize, believing
families, Plant a
Church
3. Do
Community
Profile
/People group
7. Share Testimony &
Stories.
Start Discovery Bible
study
6. Create
Relationship
Through
service
4. Send Spies
5. Identify
Person/
Family of
Peace
CHURCH GROWTH TYPES
People are inspired
and saved
Elephant Type Church
•Big
• Lots of Programs
• Holy Atmosphere (“church-like”)
・Stained glass
・Choir
・Good preaching
Slow to Multiply
•Fertile four time a year
•One baby per pregnancy (22 month gestation period)
•Sexual Maturity … 18 Years
Indispensable
Need to grow
One Pair of Elephants
One Pair of Elephants
…The family grows from 2 to 3
Each
5,500 kg
Total
16,500 kg
Rabbit Type Church
•Small Group Oriented
•Scripture is Primary Source of all Teaching
Rabbits are small,
Multiply Rapidly
Rabbits
• Practically continuously fertile
• Average of 7 babies per pregnancy
(1 month gestation period)
• Sexual Maturity… 4 months
… 3 years… Two Rabbits
In
become…
Each
1 kg
Total
476,000,000
kg
476 Million
SPECK
S – Is there a Sin to avoid or confess?
P – Is there a promise, a prayer, or praise in this
passage?
E – Is there an example to follow (or not follow)?
C – Is there a command to obey?
K – Is there knowledge that I need to retain?
What are we going to do with what we have learned
TODAY?
Text
John 3:16-17
What do you
understand?
How can you
Obey?
How can you
teach others to
Obey?
John 3:16 -17
"For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world
through him.
Slide 13
By
Pastor Shodankeh Johnson
INTRODUCTION
THE PRESENT SCENARIO
Encountering the World of Islam
1/5 of humanity bows to Islam’s Allah
20% of the world are Muslims
60% of the worlds poor are Muslim
80% of the world’s refugees are Muslim
GO TO
MATTHEW 28:16-20
People
who hate you
People who will want to kill you
Those we love and fear
People who don’t love you
People who are different from you
Go refers to change of heart rather than
just moving
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT CHURCH PLANTING
You will not find “Church Planting Movements”
mentioned anywhere in the Bible. Yet, the first
century world was swirling with new converts and
multiplying indigenous churches planting
churches which are Church Planting Movements.
Let’s take a look at the characteristics of Church
Planting Movements and see what the Bible has
to say about them.
Abundant Gospel Sowing
2 Corinthians 9:6
“…whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
1 Thessalonians 1:8
“The Lord’s message rang out from you…”
All Peoples Will Be Reached
Psalms 67 “Let all the peoples praise you.”
Matthew 24:3, 14 “…and this gospel shall be preached to all
peoples.”
Revelation 5:9 “..you purchased men for God from every tribe…”
Revelation 7:9 “…a multitude that no one could count, from every
nation…”
Revelation 15:4 “All nations will come and worship before you.”
Psalm 96 “Ascribe to the Lord, O families of nations…”
God Will Do It
Philippians 1:6 “He who began…will do it.”
1 Peter 4:11 “…do it with the strength God provides.”
God’s Word
Acts 17:11 “…examined the Scriptures every day to see if…”
HOUSE CHURCHES
Acts 5:42 “…from house to house…”
Acts 8:3 “Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to
house…”
Acts 12:12 “…the house of Mary…where many people had
gathered…”
Romans 16:5 “Greet also the church that meets at their house.”
1 Corinthians 16:19 “…the church that meets at their house.”
Colossians 4:15 “…the church in her house.”
Philemon 2 “…the church that meets in your home.”
Lay Leadership
Psalm 119:97-100 “I have more insight than my teachers…for I obey…”
Jeremiah 1:7 “Do not say, ‘I am only a child…’”
Luke 8:39 “…so the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus…”
Acts 4:13 “…they were unschooled, ordinary men.”
1 Corinthians 1:26 “…not many were wise by human standards…”
2 Corinthians 3:4-5 “Not that we are competent in ourselves…”
1 Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young.”
1 Peter 2:9-10 “…you are a royal priesthood…”
1 Peter 4:10-11 “Each one should use whatever gift he has…”
Indigenous Leadership
2
Model, Equip, Watch & Leave
Timothy 2:2 “…entrust to reliable men…”
Titus
1:5 “…appoint elders in every town…
Multiple Church Leaders
1 Corinthians 12:7 “Now to each one…the Spirit is given for the common
good.
1 Corinthians 14:26 “…everyone has a hymn, or a word…a revelation…’”
Ephesians 4:11-16 “…some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some…”
Oikos Evangelism
- Community Implications to Evangelism
Acts 16:15 “…she and the members of her household were baptized.”
Acts 16:31 “…you will be saved—you and your household.”
Paradigm Shift
Habakkuk 1:5 “…you would not believe even if you were
told.”
Matt. 9:17 “…new wineskins”
Romans 12:1 “Be not conformed to this world…”
Jonah 1-4 -The reluctant missionary
Persecution and Suffering
Matthew 10:17-25 “A student is not above his teacher.”
2 Corinthians 11:23-29 “I have known hunger and thirst.”
1 Peter 4:12-13 “Do not be surprised [that] you are
suffering.”
Revelation 6:9-11 “How long [until] you avenge our blood?”
Revelation 12:10-12 “He is filled with fury, he knows his
time
is short.”
PRAYER
Psalms 2:8 “…ask of me and I will give you the ends of
the earth.”
Luke 5:16 “…Jesus often went off to a lonely place and
prayed.”
Luke 6:12 “…Jesus…spent the night praying to God…”
RAPID SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL
Acts 2:47 “…the Lord added to their number daily
those…being saved.”
Acts 19:20 “In this way the word of the Lord spread widely
and grew in power.”
Rapid Assimilation of New Believers
Acts 2:41 “Those who accepted his message were
baptized…that day.”
Acts8:26-39 “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”
Acts 16:5 “…the churches…grew daily in numbers.”
Acts 18:5 “…grew daily in numbers.”
Remove Obstacles
Luke 3:4-6 “…make straight the way of the Lord…”
The Man of Peace, Opening New Work
Luke 10:1-18 …when you enter a town…”
Unreached People Groups
Matthew 18:12-13 - Parable of the Lost Sheep
Romans 15:20-23 “…my ambition to preach where Christ
was
not known”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
1. Start with prayer – know the mind of God and join Him in His
work
2. Everything is grounded in Scripture
3. Focus is on households, not individuals
4. Make Disciples, not converts
5. Teach obedience-based discipleship, not knowledge-based
6. Plan your work and work your plan – be intentional in
Evangelism and Church Planting
CRITICAL ELEMENT
7. Start with the Man of Peace or an existing relationship that will
permit a Discovery Bible Study or Witness
8. Form new believers into minimum practice groups that will
become churches
9. Develop a group DNA of urgent obedience that will reach out
to “ALL”
10. Develop a group DNA of rapidly reproducing disciples,
leaders, groups and churches
11. Training is done “On the Job”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
12. Keep all things reproducible by local leaders
13. Use unpaid local leaders to start new groups
14. Authority of Scripture and the Holy Spirit are all that is needed
to start
15. Do not require cultural suicide
16. Persecution is part of being a Christian
17. Discipleship and Training are continuous and primarily done
through mentoring
18. Model, Equip, Watch, and Leave
COUNTER INTUITIVE
1. Go slow at first to go fast later… focus on few to win may
2. Stay only where Jesus has prepared someone’s heart to hear
and obey
3. Do not focus on personal evangelism… focus on evangelizing
the whole community through families
4. Start with creation not Christ
5. Disciple people to conversion… not vice versa
6. A novice insider will produce more fruit than a highly trained
outsider
COUNTER INTUITIVE
7. Prepare to spend a long time making strong disciples, but
anticipate miracle accelerations
8. The best time for a church to plant a new church is when it is
brand new
9. Focus on discipling ordinary people not developing
”Professional” Christians
10. Expect the hardest places to yield the greatest result
11. Small for-profit project often yield much higher long term
access to resistant areas than free services
9. Train,
Coach,
Mentor,
watch and
Leave
1. Identify
Community
2. Pray for
Community
8. Identify
Natural Local
Leader(S)
Baptize, believing
families, Plant a
Church
3. Do
Community
Profile
/People group
7. Share Testimony &
Stories.
Start Discovery Bible
study
6. Create
Relationship
Through
service
4. Send Spies
5. Identify
Person/
Family of
Peace
CHURCH GROWTH TYPES
People are inspired
and saved
Elephant Type Church
•Big
• Lots of Programs
• Holy Atmosphere (“church-like”)
・Stained glass
・Choir
・Good preaching
Slow to Multiply
•Fertile four time a year
•One baby per pregnancy (22 month gestation period)
•Sexual Maturity … 18 Years
Indispensable
Need to grow
One Pair of Elephants
One Pair of Elephants
…The family grows from 2 to 3
Each
5,500 kg
Total
16,500 kg
Rabbit Type Church
•Small Group Oriented
•Scripture is Primary Source of all Teaching
Rabbits are small,
Multiply Rapidly
Rabbits
• Practically continuously fertile
• Average of 7 babies per pregnancy
(1 month gestation period)
• Sexual Maturity… 4 months
… 3 years… Two Rabbits
In
become…
Each
1 kg
Total
476,000,000
kg
476 Million
SPECK
S – Is there a Sin to avoid or confess?
P – Is there a promise, a prayer, or praise in this
passage?
E – Is there an example to follow (or not follow)?
C – Is there a command to obey?
K – Is there knowledge that I need to retain?
What are we going to do with what we have learned
TODAY?
Text
John 3:16-17
What do you
understand?
How can you
Obey?
How can you
teach others to
Obey?
John 3:16 -17
"For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world
through him.
Slide 14
By
Pastor Shodankeh Johnson
INTRODUCTION
THE PRESENT SCENARIO
Encountering the World of Islam
1/5 of humanity bows to Islam’s Allah
20% of the world are Muslims
60% of the worlds poor are Muslim
80% of the world’s refugees are Muslim
GO TO
MATTHEW 28:16-20
People
who hate you
People who will want to kill you
Those we love and fear
People who don’t love you
People who are different from you
Go refers to change of heart rather than
just moving
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT CHURCH PLANTING
You will not find “Church Planting Movements”
mentioned anywhere in the Bible. Yet, the first
century world was swirling with new converts and
multiplying indigenous churches planting
churches which are Church Planting Movements.
Let’s take a look at the characteristics of Church
Planting Movements and see what the Bible has
to say about them.
Abundant Gospel Sowing
2 Corinthians 9:6
“…whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
1 Thessalonians 1:8
“The Lord’s message rang out from you…”
All Peoples Will Be Reached
Psalms 67 “Let all the peoples praise you.”
Matthew 24:3, 14 “…and this gospel shall be preached to all
peoples.”
Revelation 5:9 “..you purchased men for God from every tribe…”
Revelation 7:9 “…a multitude that no one could count, from every
nation…”
Revelation 15:4 “All nations will come and worship before you.”
Psalm 96 “Ascribe to the Lord, O families of nations…”
God Will Do It
Philippians 1:6 “He who began…will do it.”
1 Peter 4:11 “…do it with the strength God provides.”
God’s Word
Acts 17:11 “…examined the Scriptures every day to see if…”
HOUSE CHURCHES
Acts 5:42 “…from house to house…”
Acts 8:3 “Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to
house…”
Acts 12:12 “…the house of Mary…where many people had
gathered…”
Romans 16:5 “Greet also the church that meets at their house.”
1 Corinthians 16:19 “…the church that meets at their house.”
Colossians 4:15 “…the church in her house.”
Philemon 2 “…the church that meets in your home.”
Lay Leadership
Psalm 119:97-100 “I have more insight than my teachers…for I obey…”
Jeremiah 1:7 “Do not say, ‘I am only a child…’”
Luke 8:39 “…so the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus…”
Acts 4:13 “…they were unschooled, ordinary men.”
1 Corinthians 1:26 “…not many were wise by human standards…”
2 Corinthians 3:4-5 “Not that we are competent in ourselves…”
1 Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young.”
1 Peter 2:9-10 “…you are a royal priesthood…”
1 Peter 4:10-11 “Each one should use whatever gift he has…”
Indigenous Leadership
2
Model, Equip, Watch & Leave
Timothy 2:2 “…entrust to reliable men…”
Titus
1:5 “…appoint elders in every town…
Multiple Church Leaders
1 Corinthians 12:7 “Now to each one…the Spirit is given for the common
good.
1 Corinthians 14:26 “…everyone has a hymn, or a word…a revelation…’”
Ephesians 4:11-16 “…some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some…”
Oikos Evangelism
- Community Implications to Evangelism
Acts 16:15 “…she and the members of her household were baptized.”
Acts 16:31 “…you will be saved—you and your household.”
Paradigm Shift
Habakkuk 1:5 “…you would not believe even if you were
told.”
Matt. 9:17 “…new wineskins”
Romans 12:1 “Be not conformed to this world…”
Jonah 1-4 -The reluctant missionary
Persecution and Suffering
Matthew 10:17-25 “A student is not above his teacher.”
2 Corinthians 11:23-29 “I have known hunger and thirst.”
1 Peter 4:12-13 “Do not be surprised [that] you are
suffering.”
Revelation 6:9-11 “How long [until] you avenge our blood?”
Revelation 12:10-12 “He is filled with fury, he knows his
time
is short.”
PRAYER
Psalms 2:8 “…ask of me and I will give you the ends of
the earth.”
Luke 5:16 “…Jesus often went off to a lonely place and
prayed.”
Luke 6:12 “…Jesus…spent the night praying to God…”
RAPID SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL
Acts 2:47 “…the Lord added to their number daily
those…being saved.”
Acts 19:20 “In this way the word of the Lord spread widely
and grew in power.”
Rapid Assimilation of New Believers
Acts 2:41 “Those who accepted his message were
baptized…that day.”
Acts8:26-39 “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”
Acts 16:5 “…the churches…grew daily in numbers.”
Acts 18:5 “…grew daily in numbers.”
Remove Obstacles
Luke 3:4-6 “…make straight the way of the Lord…”
The Man of Peace, Opening New Work
Luke 10:1-18 …when you enter a town…”
Unreached People Groups
Matthew 18:12-13 - Parable of the Lost Sheep
Romans 15:20-23 “…my ambition to preach where Christ
was
not known”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
1. Start with prayer – know the mind of God and join Him in His
work
2. Everything is grounded in Scripture
3. Focus is on households, not individuals
4. Make Disciples, not converts
5. Teach obedience-based discipleship, not knowledge-based
6. Plan your work and work your plan – be intentional in
Evangelism and Church Planting
CRITICAL ELEMENT
7. Start with the Man of Peace or an existing relationship that will
permit a Discovery Bible Study or Witness
8. Form new believers into minimum practice groups that will
become churches
9. Develop a group DNA of urgent obedience that will reach out
to “ALL”
10. Develop a group DNA of rapidly reproducing disciples,
leaders, groups and churches
11. Training is done “On the Job”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
12. Keep all things reproducible by local leaders
13. Use unpaid local leaders to start new groups
14. Authority of Scripture and the Holy Spirit are all that is needed
to start
15. Do not require cultural suicide
16. Persecution is part of being a Christian
17. Discipleship and Training are continuous and primarily done
through mentoring
18. Model, Equip, Watch, and Leave
COUNTER INTUITIVE
1. Go slow at first to go fast later… focus on few to win may
2. Stay only where Jesus has prepared someone’s heart to hear
and obey
3. Do not focus on personal evangelism… focus on evangelizing
the whole community through families
4. Start with creation not Christ
5. Disciple people to conversion… not vice versa
6. A novice insider will produce more fruit than a highly trained
outsider
COUNTER INTUITIVE
7. Prepare to spend a long time making strong disciples, but
anticipate miracle accelerations
8. The best time for a church to plant a new church is when it is
brand new
9. Focus on discipling ordinary people not developing
”Professional” Christians
10. Expect the hardest places to yield the greatest result
11. Small for-profit project often yield much higher long term
access to resistant areas than free services
9. Train,
Coach,
Mentor,
watch and
Leave
1. Identify
Community
2. Pray for
Community
8. Identify
Natural Local
Leader(S)
Baptize, believing
families, Plant a
Church
3. Do
Community
Profile
/People group
7. Share Testimony &
Stories.
Start Discovery Bible
study
6. Create
Relationship
Through
service
4. Send Spies
5. Identify
Person/
Family of
Peace
CHURCH GROWTH TYPES
People are inspired
and saved
Elephant Type Church
•Big
• Lots of Programs
• Holy Atmosphere (“church-like”)
・Stained glass
・Choir
・Good preaching
Slow to Multiply
•Fertile four time a year
•One baby per pregnancy (22 month gestation period)
•Sexual Maturity … 18 Years
Indispensable
Need to grow
One Pair of Elephants
One Pair of Elephants
…The family grows from 2 to 3
Each
5,500 kg
Total
16,500 kg
Rabbit Type Church
•Small Group Oriented
•Scripture is Primary Source of all Teaching
Rabbits are small,
Multiply Rapidly
Rabbits
• Practically continuously fertile
• Average of 7 babies per pregnancy
(1 month gestation period)
• Sexual Maturity… 4 months
… 3 years… Two Rabbits
In
become…
Each
1 kg
Total
476,000,000
kg
476 Million
SPECK
S – Is there a Sin to avoid or confess?
P – Is there a promise, a prayer, or praise in this
passage?
E – Is there an example to follow (or not follow)?
C – Is there a command to obey?
K – Is there knowledge that I need to retain?
What are we going to do with what we have learned
TODAY?
Text
John 3:16-17
What do you
understand?
How can you
Obey?
How can you
teach others to
Obey?
John 3:16 -17
"For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world
through him.
Slide 15
By
Pastor Shodankeh Johnson
INTRODUCTION
THE PRESENT SCENARIO
Encountering the World of Islam
1/5 of humanity bows to Islam’s Allah
20% of the world are Muslims
60% of the worlds poor are Muslim
80% of the world’s refugees are Muslim
GO TO
MATTHEW 28:16-20
People
who hate you
People who will want to kill you
Those we love and fear
People who don’t love you
People who are different from you
Go refers to change of heart rather than
just moving
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT CHURCH PLANTING
You will not find “Church Planting Movements”
mentioned anywhere in the Bible. Yet, the first
century world was swirling with new converts and
multiplying indigenous churches planting
churches which are Church Planting Movements.
Let’s take a look at the characteristics of Church
Planting Movements and see what the Bible has
to say about them.
Abundant Gospel Sowing
2 Corinthians 9:6
“…whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
1 Thessalonians 1:8
“The Lord’s message rang out from you…”
All Peoples Will Be Reached
Psalms 67 “Let all the peoples praise you.”
Matthew 24:3, 14 “…and this gospel shall be preached to all
peoples.”
Revelation 5:9 “..you purchased men for God from every tribe…”
Revelation 7:9 “…a multitude that no one could count, from every
nation…”
Revelation 15:4 “All nations will come and worship before you.”
Psalm 96 “Ascribe to the Lord, O families of nations…”
God Will Do It
Philippians 1:6 “He who began…will do it.”
1 Peter 4:11 “…do it with the strength God provides.”
God’s Word
Acts 17:11 “…examined the Scriptures every day to see if…”
HOUSE CHURCHES
Acts 5:42 “…from house to house…”
Acts 8:3 “Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to
house…”
Acts 12:12 “…the house of Mary…where many people had
gathered…”
Romans 16:5 “Greet also the church that meets at their house.”
1 Corinthians 16:19 “…the church that meets at their house.”
Colossians 4:15 “…the church in her house.”
Philemon 2 “…the church that meets in your home.”
Lay Leadership
Psalm 119:97-100 “I have more insight than my teachers…for I obey…”
Jeremiah 1:7 “Do not say, ‘I am only a child…’”
Luke 8:39 “…so the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus…”
Acts 4:13 “…they were unschooled, ordinary men.”
1 Corinthians 1:26 “…not many were wise by human standards…”
2 Corinthians 3:4-5 “Not that we are competent in ourselves…”
1 Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young.”
1 Peter 2:9-10 “…you are a royal priesthood…”
1 Peter 4:10-11 “Each one should use whatever gift he has…”
Indigenous Leadership
2
Model, Equip, Watch & Leave
Timothy 2:2 “…entrust to reliable men…”
Titus
1:5 “…appoint elders in every town…
Multiple Church Leaders
1 Corinthians 12:7 “Now to each one…the Spirit is given for the common
good.
1 Corinthians 14:26 “…everyone has a hymn, or a word…a revelation…’”
Ephesians 4:11-16 “…some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some…”
Oikos Evangelism
- Community Implications to Evangelism
Acts 16:15 “…she and the members of her household were baptized.”
Acts 16:31 “…you will be saved—you and your household.”
Paradigm Shift
Habakkuk 1:5 “…you would not believe even if you were
told.”
Matt. 9:17 “…new wineskins”
Romans 12:1 “Be not conformed to this world…”
Jonah 1-4 -The reluctant missionary
Persecution and Suffering
Matthew 10:17-25 “A student is not above his teacher.”
2 Corinthians 11:23-29 “I have known hunger and thirst.”
1 Peter 4:12-13 “Do not be surprised [that] you are
suffering.”
Revelation 6:9-11 “How long [until] you avenge our blood?”
Revelation 12:10-12 “He is filled with fury, he knows his
time
is short.”
PRAYER
Psalms 2:8 “…ask of me and I will give you the ends of
the earth.”
Luke 5:16 “…Jesus often went off to a lonely place and
prayed.”
Luke 6:12 “…Jesus…spent the night praying to God…”
RAPID SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL
Acts 2:47 “…the Lord added to their number daily
those…being saved.”
Acts 19:20 “In this way the word of the Lord spread widely
and grew in power.”
Rapid Assimilation of New Believers
Acts 2:41 “Those who accepted his message were
baptized…that day.”
Acts8:26-39 “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”
Acts 16:5 “…the churches…grew daily in numbers.”
Acts 18:5 “…grew daily in numbers.”
Remove Obstacles
Luke 3:4-6 “…make straight the way of the Lord…”
The Man of Peace, Opening New Work
Luke 10:1-18 …when you enter a town…”
Unreached People Groups
Matthew 18:12-13 - Parable of the Lost Sheep
Romans 15:20-23 “…my ambition to preach where Christ
was
not known”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
1. Start with prayer – know the mind of God and join Him in His
work
2. Everything is grounded in Scripture
3. Focus is on households, not individuals
4. Make Disciples, not converts
5. Teach obedience-based discipleship, not knowledge-based
6. Plan your work and work your plan – be intentional in
Evangelism and Church Planting
CRITICAL ELEMENT
7. Start with the Man of Peace or an existing relationship that will
permit a Discovery Bible Study or Witness
8. Form new believers into minimum practice groups that will
become churches
9. Develop a group DNA of urgent obedience that will reach out
to “ALL”
10. Develop a group DNA of rapidly reproducing disciples,
leaders, groups and churches
11. Training is done “On the Job”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
12. Keep all things reproducible by local leaders
13. Use unpaid local leaders to start new groups
14. Authority of Scripture and the Holy Spirit are all that is needed
to start
15. Do not require cultural suicide
16. Persecution is part of being a Christian
17. Discipleship and Training are continuous and primarily done
through mentoring
18. Model, Equip, Watch, and Leave
COUNTER INTUITIVE
1. Go slow at first to go fast later… focus on few to win may
2. Stay only where Jesus has prepared someone’s heart to hear
and obey
3. Do not focus on personal evangelism… focus on evangelizing
the whole community through families
4. Start with creation not Christ
5. Disciple people to conversion… not vice versa
6. A novice insider will produce more fruit than a highly trained
outsider
COUNTER INTUITIVE
7. Prepare to spend a long time making strong disciples, but
anticipate miracle accelerations
8. The best time for a church to plant a new church is when it is
brand new
9. Focus on discipling ordinary people not developing
”Professional” Christians
10. Expect the hardest places to yield the greatest result
11. Small for-profit project often yield much higher long term
access to resistant areas than free services
9. Train,
Coach,
Mentor,
watch and
Leave
1. Identify
Community
2. Pray for
Community
8. Identify
Natural Local
Leader(S)
Baptize, believing
families, Plant a
Church
3. Do
Community
Profile
/People group
7. Share Testimony &
Stories.
Start Discovery Bible
study
6. Create
Relationship
Through
service
4. Send Spies
5. Identify
Person/
Family of
Peace
CHURCH GROWTH TYPES
People are inspired
and saved
Elephant Type Church
•Big
• Lots of Programs
• Holy Atmosphere (“church-like”)
・Stained glass
・Choir
・Good preaching
Slow to Multiply
•Fertile four time a year
•One baby per pregnancy (22 month gestation period)
•Sexual Maturity … 18 Years
Indispensable
Need to grow
One Pair of Elephants
One Pair of Elephants
…The family grows from 2 to 3
Each
5,500 kg
Total
16,500 kg
Rabbit Type Church
•Small Group Oriented
•Scripture is Primary Source of all Teaching
Rabbits are small,
Multiply Rapidly
Rabbits
• Practically continuously fertile
• Average of 7 babies per pregnancy
(1 month gestation period)
• Sexual Maturity… 4 months
… 3 years… Two Rabbits
In
become…
Each
1 kg
Total
476,000,000
kg
476 Million
SPECK
S – Is there a Sin to avoid or confess?
P – Is there a promise, a prayer, or praise in this
passage?
E – Is there an example to follow (or not follow)?
C – Is there a command to obey?
K – Is there knowledge that I need to retain?
What are we going to do with what we have learned
TODAY?
Text
John 3:16-17
What do you
understand?
How can you
Obey?
How can you
teach others to
Obey?
John 3:16 -17
"For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world
through him.
Slide 16
By
Pastor Shodankeh Johnson
INTRODUCTION
THE PRESENT SCENARIO
Encountering the World of Islam
1/5 of humanity bows to Islam’s Allah
20% of the world are Muslims
60% of the worlds poor are Muslim
80% of the world’s refugees are Muslim
GO TO
MATTHEW 28:16-20
People
who hate you
People who will want to kill you
Those we love and fear
People who don’t love you
People who are different from you
Go refers to change of heart rather than
just moving
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT CHURCH PLANTING
You will not find “Church Planting Movements”
mentioned anywhere in the Bible. Yet, the first
century world was swirling with new converts and
multiplying indigenous churches planting
churches which are Church Planting Movements.
Let’s take a look at the characteristics of Church
Planting Movements and see what the Bible has
to say about them.
Abundant Gospel Sowing
2 Corinthians 9:6
“…whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
1 Thessalonians 1:8
“The Lord’s message rang out from you…”
All Peoples Will Be Reached
Psalms 67 “Let all the peoples praise you.”
Matthew 24:3, 14 “…and this gospel shall be preached to all
peoples.”
Revelation 5:9 “..you purchased men for God from every tribe…”
Revelation 7:9 “…a multitude that no one could count, from every
nation…”
Revelation 15:4 “All nations will come and worship before you.”
Psalm 96 “Ascribe to the Lord, O families of nations…”
God Will Do It
Philippians 1:6 “He who began…will do it.”
1 Peter 4:11 “…do it with the strength God provides.”
God’s Word
Acts 17:11 “…examined the Scriptures every day to see if…”
HOUSE CHURCHES
Acts 5:42 “…from house to house…”
Acts 8:3 “Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to
house…”
Acts 12:12 “…the house of Mary…where many people had
gathered…”
Romans 16:5 “Greet also the church that meets at their house.”
1 Corinthians 16:19 “…the church that meets at their house.”
Colossians 4:15 “…the church in her house.”
Philemon 2 “…the church that meets in your home.”
Lay Leadership
Psalm 119:97-100 “I have more insight than my teachers…for I obey…”
Jeremiah 1:7 “Do not say, ‘I am only a child…’”
Luke 8:39 “…so the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus…”
Acts 4:13 “…they were unschooled, ordinary men.”
1 Corinthians 1:26 “…not many were wise by human standards…”
2 Corinthians 3:4-5 “Not that we are competent in ourselves…”
1 Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young.”
1 Peter 2:9-10 “…you are a royal priesthood…”
1 Peter 4:10-11 “Each one should use whatever gift he has…”
Indigenous Leadership
2
Model, Equip, Watch & Leave
Timothy 2:2 “…entrust to reliable men…”
Titus
1:5 “…appoint elders in every town…
Multiple Church Leaders
1 Corinthians 12:7 “Now to each one…the Spirit is given for the common
good.
1 Corinthians 14:26 “…everyone has a hymn, or a word…a revelation…’”
Ephesians 4:11-16 “…some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some…”
Oikos Evangelism
- Community Implications to Evangelism
Acts 16:15 “…she and the members of her household were baptized.”
Acts 16:31 “…you will be saved—you and your household.”
Paradigm Shift
Habakkuk 1:5 “…you would not believe even if you were
told.”
Matt. 9:17 “…new wineskins”
Romans 12:1 “Be not conformed to this world…”
Jonah 1-4 -The reluctant missionary
Persecution and Suffering
Matthew 10:17-25 “A student is not above his teacher.”
2 Corinthians 11:23-29 “I have known hunger and thirst.”
1 Peter 4:12-13 “Do not be surprised [that] you are
suffering.”
Revelation 6:9-11 “How long [until] you avenge our blood?”
Revelation 12:10-12 “He is filled with fury, he knows his
time
is short.”
PRAYER
Psalms 2:8 “…ask of me and I will give you the ends of
the earth.”
Luke 5:16 “…Jesus often went off to a lonely place and
prayed.”
Luke 6:12 “…Jesus…spent the night praying to God…”
RAPID SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL
Acts 2:47 “…the Lord added to their number daily
those…being saved.”
Acts 19:20 “In this way the word of the Lord spread widely
and grew in power.”
Rapid Assimilation of New Believers
Acts 2:41 “Those who accepted his message were
baptized…that day.”
Acts8:26-39 “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”
Acts 16:5 “…the churches…grew daily in numbers.”
Acts 18:5 “…grew daily in numbers.”
Remove Obstacles
Luke 3:4-6 “…make straight the way of the Lord…”
The Man of Peace, Opening New Work
Luke 10:1-18 …when you enter a town…”
Unreached People Groups
Matthew 18:12-13 - Parable of the Lost Sheep
Romans 15:20-23 “…my ambition to preach where Christ
was
not known”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
1. Start with prayer – know the mind of God and join Him in His
work
2. Everything is grounded in Scripture
3. Focus is on households, not individuals
4. Make Disciples, not converts
5. Teach obedience-based discipleship, not knowledge-based
6. Plan your work and work your plan – be intentional in
Evangelism and Church Planting
CRITICAL ELEMENT
7. Start with the Man of Peace or an existing relationship that will
permit a Discovery Bible Study or Witness
8. Form new believers into minimum practice groups that will
become churches
9. Develop a group DNA of urgent obedience that will reach out
to “ALL”
10. Develop a group DNA of rapidly reproducing disciples,
leaders, groups and churches
11. Training is done “On the Job”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
12. Keep all things reproducible by local leaders
13. Use unpaid local leaders to start new groups
14. Authority of Scripture and the Holy Spirit are all that is needed
to start
15. Do not require cultural suicide
16. Persecution is part of being a Christian
17. Discipleship and Training are continuous and primarily done
through mentoring
18. Model, Equip, Watch, and Leave
COUNTER INTUITIVE
1. Go slow at first to go fast later… focus on few to win may
2. Stay only where Jesus has prepared someone’s heart to hear
and obey
3. Do not focus on personal evangelism… focus on evangelizing
the whole community through families
4. Start with creation not Christ
5. Disciple people to conversion… not vice versa
6. A novice insider will produce more fruit than a highly trained
outsider
COUNTER INTUITIVE
7. Prepare to spend a long time making strong disciples, but
anticipate miracle accelerations
8. The best time for a church to plant a new church is when it is
brand new
9. Focus on discipling ordinary people not developing
”Professional” Christians
10. Expect the hardest places to yield the greatest result
11. Small for-profit project often yield much higher long term
access to resistant areas than free services
9. Train,
Coach,
Mentor,
watch and
Leave
1. Identify
Community
2. Pray for
Community
8. Identify
Natural Local
Leader(S)
Baptize, believing
families, Plant a
Church
3. Do
Community
Profile
/People group
7. Share Testimony &
Stories.
Start Discovery Bible
study
6. Create
Relationship
Through
service
4. Send Spies
5. Identify
Person/
Family of
Peace
CHURCH GROWTH TYPES
People are inspired
and saved
Elephant Type Church
•Big
• Lots of Programs
• Holy Atmosphere (“church-like”)
・Stained glass
・Choir
・Good preaching
Slow to Multiply
•Fertile four time a year
•One baby per pregnancy (22 month gestation period)
•Sexual Maturity … 18 Years
Indispensable
Need to grow
One Pair of Elephants
One Pair of Elephants
…The family grows from 2 to 3
Each
5,500 kg
Total
16,500 kg
Rabbit Type Church
•Small Group Oriented
•Scripture is Primary Source of all Teaching
Rabbits are small,
Multiply Rapidly
Rabbits
• Practically continuously fertile
• Average of 7 babies per pregnancy
(1 month gestation period)
• Sexual Maturity… 4 months
… 3 years… Two Rabbits
In
become…
Each
1 kg
Total
476,000,000
kg
476 Million
SPECK
S – Is there a Sin to avoid or confess?
P – Is there a promise, a prayer, or praise in this
passage?
E – Is there an example to follow (or not follow)?
C – Is there a command to obey?
K – Is there knowledge that I need to retain?
What are we going to do with what we have learned
TODAY?
Text
John 3:16-17
What do you
understand?
How can you
Obey?
How can you
teach others to
Obey?
John 3:16 -17
"For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world
through him.
Slide 17
By
Pastor Shodankeh Johnson
INTRODUCTION
THE PRESENT SCENARIO
Encountering the World of Islam
1/5 of humanity bows to Islam’s Allah
20% of the world are Muslims
60% of the worlds poor are Muslim
80% of the world’s refugees are Muslim
GO TO
MATTHEW 28:16-20
People
who hate you
People who will want to kill you
Those we love and fear
People who don’t love you
People who are different from you
Go refers to change of heart rather than
just moving
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT CHURCH PLANTING
You will not find “Church Planting Movements”
mentioned anywhere in the Bible. Yet, the first
century world was swirling with new converts and
multiplying indigenous churches planting
churches which are Church Planting Movements.
Let’s take a look at the characteristics of Church
Planting Movements and see what the Bible has
to say about them.
Abundant Gospel Sowing
2 Corinthians 9:6
“…whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
1 Thessalonians 1:8
“The Lord’s message rang out from you…”
All Peoples Will Be Reached
Psalms 67 “Let all the peoples praise you.”
Matthew 24:3, 14 “…and this gospel shall be preached to all
peoples.”
Revelation 5:9 “..you purchased men for God from every tribe…”
Revelation 7:9 “…a multitude that no one could count, from every
nation…”
Revelation 15:4 “All nations will come and worship before you.”
Psalm 96 “Ascribe to the Lord, O families of nations…”
God Will Do It
Philippians 1:6 “He who began…will do it.”
1 Peter 4:11 “…do it with the strength God provides.”
God’s Word
Acts 17:11 “…examined the Scriptures every day to see if…”
HOUSE CHURCHES
Acts 5:42 “…from house to house…”
Acts 8:3 “Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to
house…”
Acts 12:12 “…the house of Mary…where many people had
gathered…”
Romans 16:5 “Greet also the church that meets at their house.”
1 Corinthians 16:19 “…the church that meets at their house.”
Colossians 4:15 “…the church in her house.”
Philemon 2 “…the church that meets in your home.”
Lay Leadership
Psalm 119:97-100 “I have more insight than my teachers…for I obey…”
Jeremiah 1:7 “Do not say, ‘I am only a child…’”
Luke 8:39 “…so the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus…”
Acts 4:13 “…they were unschooled, ordinary men.”
1 Corinthians 1:26 “…not many were wise by human standards…”
2 Corinthians 3:4-5 “Not that we are competent in ourselves…”
1 Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young.”
1 Peter 2:9-10 “…you are a royal priesthood…”
1 Peter 4:10-11 “Each one should use whatever gift he has…”
Indigenous Leadership
2
Model, Equip, Watch & Leave
Timothy 2:2 “…entrust to reliable men…”
Titus
1:5 “…appoint elders in every town…
Multiple Church Leaders
1 Corinthians 12:7 “Now to each one…the Spirit is given for the common
good.
1 Corinthians 14:26 “…everyone has a hymn, or a word…a revelation…’”
Ephesians 4:11-16 “…some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some…”
Oikos Evangelism
- Community Implications to Evangelism
Acts 16:15 “…she and the members of her household were baptized.”
Acts 16:31 “…you will be saved—you and your household.”
Paradigm Shift
Habakkuk 1:5 “…you would not believe even if you were
told.”
Matt. 9:17 “…new wineskins”
Romans 12:1 “Be not conformed to this world…”
Jonah 1-4 -The reluctant missionary
Persecution and Suffering
Matthew 10:17-25 “A student is not above his teacher.”
2 Corinthians 11:23-29 “I have known hunger and thirst.”
1 Peter 4:12-13 “Do not be surprised [that] you are
suffering.”
Revelation 6:9-11 “How long [until] you avenge our blood?”
Revelation 12:10-12 “He is filled with fury, he knows his
time
is short.”
PRAYER
Psalms 2:8 “…ask of me and I will give you the ends of
the earth.”
Luke 5:16 “…Jesus often went off to a lonely place and
prayed.”
Luke 6:12 “…Jesus…spent the night praying to God…”
RAPID SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL
Acts 2:47 “…the Lord added to their number daily
those…being saved.”
Acts 19:20 “In this way the word of the Lord spread widely
and grew in power.”
Rapid Assimilation of New Believers
Acts 2:41 “Those who accepted his message were
baptized…that day.”
Acts8:26-39 “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”
Acts 16:5 “…the churches…grew daily in numbers.”
Acts 18:5 “…grew daily in numbers.”
Remove Obstacles
Luke 3:4-6 “…make straight the way of the Lord…”
The Man of Peace, Opening New Work
Luke 10:1-18 …when you enter a town…”
Unreached People Groups
Matthew 18:12-13 - Parable of the Lost Sheep
Romans 15:20-23 “…my ambition to preach where Christ
was
not known”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
1. Start with prayer – know the mind of God and join Him in His
work
2. Everything is grounded in Scripture
3. Focus is on households, not individuals
4. Make Disciples, not converts
5. Teach obedience-based discipleship, not knowledge-based
6. Plan your work and work your plan – be intentional in
Evangelism and Church Planting
CRITICAL ELEMENT
7. Start with the Man of Peace or an existing relationship that will
permit a Discovery Bible Study or Witness
8. Form new believers into minimum practice groups that will
become churches
9. Develop a group DNA of urgent obedience that will reach out
to “ALL”
10. Develop a group DNA of rapidly reproducing disciples,
leaders, groups and churches
11. Training is done “On the Job”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
12. Keep all things reproducible by local leaders
13. Use unpaid local leaders to start new groups
14. Authority of Scripture and the Holy Spirit are all that is needed
to start
15. Do not require cultural suicide
16. Persecution is part of being a Christian
17. Discipleship and Training are continuous and primarily done
through mentoring
18. Model, Equip, Watch, and Leave
COUNTER INTUITIVE
1. Go slow at first to go fast later… focus on few to win may
2. Stay only where Jesus has prepared someone’s heart to hear
and obey
3. Do not focus on personal evangelism… focus on evangelizing
the whole community through families
4. Start with creation not Christ
5. Disciple people to conversion… not vice versa
6. A novice insider will produce more fruit than a highly trained
outsider
COUNTER INTUITIVE
7. Prepare to spend a long time making strong disciples, but
anticipate miracle accelerations
8. The best time for a church to plant a new church is when it is
brand new
9. Focus on discipling ordinary people not developing
”Professional” Christians
10. Expect the hardest places to yield the greatest result
11. Small for-profit project often yield much higher long term
access to resistant areas than free services
9. Train,
Coach,
Mentor,
watch and
Leave
1. Identify
Community
2. Pray for
Community
8. Identify
Natural Local
Leader(S)
Baptize, believing
families, Plant a
Church
3. Do
Community
Profile
/People group
7. Share Testimony &
Stories.
Start Discovery Bible
study
6. Create
Relationship
Through
service
4. Send Spies
5. Identify
Person/
Family of
Peace
CHURCH GROWTH TYPES
People are inspired
and saved
Elephant Type Church
•Big
• Lots of Programs
• Holy Atmosphere (“church-like”)
・Stained glass
・Choir
・Good preaching
Slow to Multiply
•Fertile four time a year
•One baby per pregnancy (22 month gestation period)
•Sexual Maturity … 18 Years
Indispensable
Need to grow
One Pair of Elephants
One Pair of Elephants
…The family grows from 2 to 3
Each
5,500 kg
Total
16,500 kg
Rabbit Type Church
•Small Group Oriented
•Scripture is Primary Source of all Teaching
Rabbits are small,
Multiply Rapidly
Rabbits
• Practically continuously fertile
• Average of 7 babies per pregnancy
(1 month gestation period)
• Sexual Maturity… 4 months
… 3 years… Two Rabbits
In
become…
Each
1 kg
Total
476,000,000
kg
476 Million
SPECK
S – Is there a Sin to avoid or confess?
P – Is there a promise, a prayer, or praise in this
passage?
E – Is there an example to follow (or not follow)?
C – Is there a command to obey?
K – Is there knowledge that I need to retain?
What are we going to do with what we have learned
TODAY?
Text
John 3:16-17
What do you
understand?
How can you
Obey?
How can you
teach others to
Obey?
John 3:16 -17
"For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world
through him.
Slide 18
By
Pastor Shodankeh Johnson
INTRODUCTION
THE PRESENT SCENARIO
Encountering the World of Islam
1/5 of humanity bows to Islam’s Allah
20% of the world are Muslims
60% of the worlds poor are Muslim
80% of the world’s refugees are Muslim
GO TO
MATTHEW 28:16-20
People
who hate you
People who will want to kill you
Those we love and fear
People who don’t love you
People who are different from you
Go refers to change of heart rather than
just moving
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT CHURCH PLANTING
You will not find “Church Planting Movements”
mentioned anywhere in the Bible. Yet, the first
century world was swirling with new converts and
multiplying indigenous churches planting
churches which are Church Planting Movements.
Let’s take a look at the characteristics of Church
Planting Movements and see what the Bible has
to say about them.
Abundant Gospel Sowing
2 Corinthians 9:6
“…whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
1 Thessalonians 1:8
“The Lord’s message rang out from you…”
All Peoples Will Be Reached
Psalms 67 “Let all the peoples praise you.”
Matthew 24:3, 14 “…and this gospel shall be preached to all
peoples.”
Revelation 5:9 “..you purchased men for God from every tribe…”
Revelation 7:9 “…a multitude that no one could count, from every
nation…”
Revelation 15:4 “All nations will come and worship before you.”
Psalm 96 “Ascribe to the Lord, O families of nations…”
God Will Do It
Philippians 1:6 “He who began…will do it.”
1 Peter 4:11 “…do it with the strength God provides.”
God’s Word
Acts 17:11 “…examined the Scriptures every day to see if…”
HOUSE CHURCHES
Acts 5:42 “…from house to house…”
Acts 8:3 “Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to
house…”
Acts 12:12 “…the house of Mary…where many people had
gathered…”
Romans 16:5 “Greet also the church that meets at their house.”
1 Corinthians 16:19 “…the church that meets at their house.”
Colossians 4:15 “…the church in her house.”
Philemon 2 “…the church that meets in your home.”
Lay Leadership
Psalm 119:97-100 “I have more insight than my teachers…for I obey…”
Jeremiah 1:7 “Do not say, ‘I am only a child…’”
Luke 8:39 “…so the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus…”
Acts 4:13 “…they were unschooled, ordinary men.”
1 Corinthians 1:26 “…not many were wise by human standards…”
2 Corinthians 3:4-5 “Not that we are competent in ourselves…”
1 Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young.”
1 Peter 2:9-10 “…you are a royal priesthood…”
1 Peter 4:10-11 “Each one should use whatever gift he has…”
Indigenous Leadership
2
Model, Equip, Watch & Leave
Timothy 2:2 “…entrust to reliable men…”
Titus
1:5 “…appoint elders in every town…
Multiple Church Leaders
1 Corinthians 12:7 “Now to each one…the Spirit is given for the common
good.
1 Corinthians 14:26 “…everyone has a hymn, or a word…a revelation…’”
Ephesians 4:11-16 “…some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some…”
Oikos Evangelism
- Community Implications to Evangelism
Acts 16:15 “…she and the members of her household were baptized.”
Acts 16:31 “…you will be saved—you and your household.”
Paradigm Shift
Habakkuk 1:5 “…you would not believe even if you were
told.”
Matt. 9:17 “…new wineskins”
Romans 12:1 “Be not conformed to this world…”
Jonah 1-4 -The reluctant missionary
Persecution and Suffering
Matthew 10:17-25 “A student is not above his teacher.”
2 Corinthians 11:23-29 “I have known hunger and thirst.”
1 Peter 4:12-13 “Do not be surprised [that] you are
suffering.”
Revelation 6:9-11 “How long [until] you avenge our blood?”
Revelation 12:10-12 “He is filled with fury, he knows his
time
is short.”
PRAYER
Psalms 2:8 “…ask of me and I will give you the ends of
the earth.”
Luke 5:16 “…Jesus often went off to a lonely place and
prayed.”
Luke 6:12 “…Jesus…spent the night praying to God…”
RAPID SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL
Acts 2:47 “…the Lord added to their number daily
those…being saved.”
Acts 19:20 “In this way the word of the Lord spread widely
and grew in power.”
Rapid Assimilation of New Believers
Acts 2:41 “Those who accepted his message were
baptized…that day.”
Acts8:26-39 “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”
Acts 16:5 “…the churches…grew daily in numbers.”
Acts 18:5 “…grew daily in numbers.”
Remove Obstacles
Luke 3:4-6 “…make straight the way of the Lord…”
The Man of Peace, Opening New Work
Luke 10:1-18 …when you enter a town…”
Unreached People Groups
Matthew 18:12-13 - Parable of the Lost Sheep
Romans 15:20-23 “…my ambition to preach where Christ
was
not known”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
1. Start with prayer – know the mind of God and join Him in His
work
2. Everything is grounded in Scripture
3. Focus is on households, not individuals
4. Make Disciples, not converts
5. Teach obedience-based discipleship, not knowledge-based
6. Plan your work and work your plan – be intentional in
Evangelism and Church Planting
CRITICAL ELEMENT
7. Start with the Man of Peace or an existing relationship that will
permit a Discovery Bible Study or Witness
8. Form new believers into minimum practice groups that will
become churches
9. Develop a group DNA of urgent obedience that will reach out
to “ALL”
10. Develop a group DNA of rapidly reproducing disciples,
leaders, groups and churches
11. Training is done “On the Job”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
12. Keep all things reproducible by local leaders
13. Use unpaid local leaders to start new groups
14. Authority of Scripture and the Holy Spirit are all that is needed
to start
15. Do not require cultural suicide
16. Persecution is part of being a Christian
17. Discipleship and Training are continuous and primarily done
through mentoring
18. Model, Equip, Watch, and Leave
COUNTER INTUITIVE
1. Go slow at first to go fast later… focus on few to win may
2. Stay only where Jesus has prepared someone’s heart to hear
and obey
3. Do not focus on personal evangelism… focus on evangelizing
the whole community through families
4. Start with creation not Christ
5. Disciple people to conversion… not vice versa
6. A novice insider will produce more fruit than a highly trained
outsider
COUNTER INTUITIVE
7. Prepare to spend a long time making strong disciples, but
anticipate miracle accelerations
8. The best time for a church to plant a new church is when it is
brand new
9. Focus on discipling ordinary people not developing
”Professional” Christians
10. Expect the hardest places to yield the greatest result
11. Small for-profit project often yield much higher long term
access to resistant areas than free services
9. Train,
Coach,
Mentor,
watch and
Leave
1. Identify
Community
2. Pray for
Community
8. Identify
Natural Local
Leader(S)
Baptize, believing
families, Plant a
Church
3. Do
Community
Profile
/People group
7. Share Testimony &
Stories.
Start Discovery Bible
study
6. Create
Relationship
Through
service
4. Send Spies
5. Identify
Person/
Family of
Peace
CHURCH GROWTH TYPES
People are inspired
and saved
Elephant Type Church
•Big
• Lots of Programs
• Holy Atmosphere (“church-like”)
・Stained glass
・Choir
・Good preaching
Slow to Multiply
•Fertile four time a year
•One baby per pregnancy (22 month gestation period)
•Sexual Maturity … 18 Years
Indispensable
Need to grow
One Pair of Elephants
One Pair of Elephants
…The family grows from 2 to 3
Each
5,500 kg
Total
16,500 kg
Rabbit Type Church
•Small Group Oriented
•Scripture is Primary Source of all Teaching
Rabbits are small,
Multiply Rapidly
Rabbits
• Practically continuously fertile
• Average of 7 babies per pregnancy
(1 month gestation period)
• Sexual Maturity… 4 months
… 3 years… Two Rabbits
In
become…
Each
1 kg
Total
476,000,000
kg
476 Million
SPECK
S – Is there a Sin to avoid or confess?
P – Is there a promise, a prayer, or praise in this
passage?
E – Is there an example to follow (or not follow)?
C – Is there a command to obey?
K – Is there knowledge that I need to retain?
What are we going to do with what we have learned
TODAY?
Text
John 3:16-17
What do you
understand?
How can you
Obey?
How can you
teach others to
Obey?
John 3:16 -17
"For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world
through him.
Slide 19
By
Pastor Shodankeh Johnson
INTRODUCTION
THE PRESENT SCENARIO
Encountering the World of Islam
1/5 of humanity bows to Islam’s Allah
20% of the world are Muslims
60% of the worlds poor are Muslim
80% of the world’s refugees are Muslim
GO TO
MATTHEW 28:16-20
People
who hate you
People who will want to kill you
Those we love and fear
People who don’t love you
People who are different from you
Go refers to change of heart rather than
just moving
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT CHURCH PLANTING
You will not find “Church Planting Movements”
mentioned anywhere in the Bible. Yet, the first
century world was swirling with new converts and
multiplying indigenous churches planting
churches which are Church Planting Movements.
Let’s take a look at the characteristics of Church
Planting Movements and see what the Bible has
to say about them.
Abundant Gospel Sowing
2 Corinthians 9:6
“…whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
1 Thessalonians 1:8
“The Lord’s message rang out from you…”
All Peoples Will Be Reached
Psalms 67 “Let all the peoples praise you.”
Matthew 24:3, 14 “…and this gospel shall be preached to all
peoples.”
Revelation 5:9 “..you purchased men for God from every tribe…”
Revelation 7:9 “…a multitude that no one could count, from every
nation…”
Revelation 15:4 “All nations will come and worship before you.”
Psalm 96 “Ascribe to the Lord, O families of nations…”
God Will Do It
Philippians 1:6 “He who began…will do it.”
1 Peter 4:11 “…do it with the strength God provides.”
God’s Word
Acts 17:11 “…examined the Scriptures every day to see if…”
HOUSE CHURCHES
Acts 5:42 “…from house to house…”
Acts 8:3 “Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to
house…”
Acts 12:12 “…the house of Mary…where many people had
gathered…”
Romans 16:5 “Greet also the church that meets at their house.”
1 Corinthians 16:19 “…the church that meets at their house.”
Colossians 4:15 “…the church in her house.”
Philemon 2 “…the church that meets in your home.”
Lay Leadership
Psalm 119:97-100 “I have more insight than my teachers…for I obey…”
Jeremiah 1:7 “Do not say, ‘I am only a child…’”
Luke 8:39 “…so the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus…”
Acts 4:13 “…they were unschooled, ordinary men.”
1 Corinthians 1:26 “…not many were wise by human standards…”
2 Corinthians 3:4-5 “Not that we are competent in ourselves…”
1 Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young.”
1 Peter 2:9-10 “…you are a royal priesthood…”
1 Peter 4:10-11 “Each one should use whatever gift he has…”
Indigenous Leadership
2
Model, Equip, Watch & Leave
Timothy 2:2 “…entrust to reliable men…”
Titus
1:5 “…appoint elders in every town…
Multiple Church Leaders
1 Corinthians 12:7 “Now to each one…the Spirit is given for the common
good.
1 Corinthians 14:26 “…everyone has a hymn, or a word…a revelation…’”
Ephesians 4:11-16 “…some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some…”
Oikos Evangelism
- Community Implications to Evangelism
Acts 16:15 “…she and the members of her household were baptized.”
Acts 16:31 “…you will be saved—you and your household.”
Paradigm Shift
Habakkuk 1:5 “…you would not believe even if you were
told.”
Matt. 9:17 “…new wineskins”
Romans 12:1 “Be not conformed to this world…”
Jonah 1-4 -The reluctant missionary
Persecution and Suffering
Matthew 10:17-25 “A student is not above his teacher.”
2 Corinthians 11:23-29 “I have known hunger and thirst.”
1 Peter 4:12-13 “Do not be surprised [that] you are
suffering.”
Revelation 6:9-11 “How long [until] you avenge our blood?”
Revelation 12:10-12 “He is filled with fury, he knows his
time
is short.”
PRAYER
Psalms 2:8 “…ask of me and I will give you the ends of
the earth.”
Luke 5:16 “…Jesus often went off to a lonely place and
prayed.”
Luke 6:12 “…Jesus…spent the night praying to God…”
RAPID SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL
Acts 2:47 “…the Lord added to their number daily
those…being saved.”
Acts 19:20 “In this way the word of the Lord spread widely
and grew in power.”
Rapid Assimilation of New Believers
Acts 2:41 “Those who accepted his message were
baptized…that day.”
Acts8:26-39 “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”
Acts 16:5 “…the churches…grew daily in numbers.”
Acts 18:5 “…grew daily in numbers.”
Remove Obstacles
Luke 3:4-6 “…make straight the way of the Lord…”
The Man of Peace, Opening New Work
Luke 10:1-18 …when you enter a town…”
Unreached People Groups
Matthew 18:12-13 - Parable of the Lost Sheep
Romans 15:20-23 “…my ambition to preach where Christ
was
not known”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
1. Start with prayer – know the mind of God and join Him in His
work
2. Everything is grounded in Scripture
3. Focus is on households, not individuals
4. Make Disciples, not converts
5. Teach obedience-based discipleship, not knowledge-based
6. Plan your work and work your plan – be intentional in
Evangelism and Church Planting
CRITICAL ELEMENT
7. Start with the Man of Peace or an existing relationship that will
permit a Discovery Bible Study or Witness
8. Form new believers into minimum practice groups that will
become churches
9. Develop a group DNA of urgent obedience that will reach out
to “ALL”
10. Develop a group DNA of rapidly reproducing disciples,
leaders, groups and churches
11. Training is done “On the Job”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
12. Keep all things reproducible by local leaders
13. Use unpaid local leaders to start new groups
14. Authority of Scripture and the Holy Spirit are all that is needed
to start
15. Do not require cultural suicide
16. Persecution is part of being a Christian
17. Discipleship and Training are continuous and primarily done
through mentoring
18. Model, Equip, Watch, and Leave
COUNTER INTUITIVE
1. Go slow at first to go fast later… focus on few to win may
2. Stay only where Jesus has prepared someone’s heart to hear
and obey
3. Do not focus on personal evangelism… focus on evangelizing
the whole community through families
4. Start with creation not Christ
5. Disciple people to conversion… not vice versa
6. A novice insider will produce more fruit than a highly trained
outsider
COUNTER INTUITIVE
7. Prepare to spend a long time making strong disciples, but
anticipate miracle accelerations
8. The best time for a church to plant a new church is when it is
brand new
9. Focus on discipling ordinary people not developing
”Professional” Christians
10. Expect the hardest places to yield the greatest result
11. Small for-profit project often yield much higher long term
access to resistant areas than free services
9. Train,
Coach,
Mentor,
watch and
Leave
1. Identify
Community
2. Pray for
Community
8. Identify
Natural Local
Leader(S)
Baptize, believing
families, Plant a
Church
3. Do
Community
Profile
/People group
7. Share Testimony &
Stories.
Start Discovery Bible
study
6. Create
Relationship
Through
service
4. Send Spies
5. Identify
Person/
Family of
Peace
CHURCH GROWTH TYPES
People are inspired
and saved
Elephant Type Church
•Big
• Lots of Programs
• Holy Atmosphere (“church-like”)
・Stained glass
・Choir
・Good preaching
Slow to Multiply
•Fertile four time a year
•One baby per pregnancy (22 month gestation period)
•Sexual Maturity … 18 Years
Indispensable
Need to grow
One Pair of Elephants
One Pair of Elephants
…The family grows from 2 to 3
Each
5,500 kg
Total
16,500 kg
Rabbit Type Church
•Small Group Oriented
•Scripture is Primary Source of all Teaching
Rabbits are small,
Multiply Rapidly
Rabbits
• Practically continuously fertile
• Average of 7 babies per pregnancy
(1 month gestation period)
• Sexual Maturity… 4 months
… 3 years… Two Rabbits
In
become…
Each
1 kg
Total
476,000,000
kg
476 Million
SPECK
S – Is there a Sin to avoid or confess?
P – Is there a promise, a prayer, or praise in this
passage?
E – Is there an example to follow (or not follow)?
C – Is there a command to obey?
K – Is there knowledge that I need to retain?
What are we going to do with what we have learned
TODAY?
Text
John 3:16-17
What do you
understand?
How can you
Obey?
How can you
teach others to
Obey?
John 3:16 -17
"For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world
through him.
Slide 20
By
Pastor Shodankeh Johnson
INTRODUCTION
THE PRESENT SCENARIO
Encountering the World of Islam
1/5 of humanity bows to Islam’s Allah
20% of the world are Muslims
60% of the worlds poor are Muslim
80% of the world’s refugees are Muslim
GO TO
MATTHEW 28:16-20
People
who hate you
People who will want to kill you
Those we love and fear
People who don’t love you
People who are different from you
Go refers to change of heart rather than
just moving
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT CHURCH PLANTING
You will not find “Church Planting Movements”
mentioned anywhere in the Bible. Yet, the first
century world was swirling with new converts and
multiplying indigenous churches planting
churches which are Church Planting Movements.
Let’s take a look at the characteristics of Church
Planting Movements and see what the Bible has
to say about them.
Abundant Gospel Sowing
2 Corinthians 9:6
“…whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
1 Thessalonians 1:8
“The Lord’s message rang out from you…”
All Peoples Will Be Reached
Psalms 67 “Let all the peoples praise you.”
Matthew 24:3, 14 “…and this gospel shall be preached to all
peoples.”
Revelation 5:9 “..you purchased men for God from every tribe…”
Revelation 7:9 “…a multitude that no one could count, from every
nation…”
Revelation 15:4 “All nations will come and worship before you.”
Psalm 96 “Ascribe to the Lord, O families of nations…”
God Will Do It
Philippians 1:6 “He who began…will do it.”
1 Peter 4:11 “…do it with the strength God provides.”
God’s Word
Acts 17:11 “…examined the Scriptures every day to see if…”
HOUSE CHURCHES
Acts 5:42 “…from house to house…”
Acts 8:3 “Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to
house…”
Acts 12:12 “…the house of Mary…where many people had
gathered…”
Romans 16:5 “Greet also the church that meets at their house.”
1 Corinthians 16:19 “…the church that meets at their house.”
Colossians 4:15 “…the church in her house.”
Philemon 2 “…the church that meets in your home.”
Lay Leadership
Psalm 119:97-100 “I have more insight than my teachers…for I obey…”
Jeremiah 1:7 “Do not say, ‘I am only a child…’”
Luke 8:39 “…so the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus…”
Acts 4:13 “…they were unschooled, ordinary men.”
1 Corinthians 1:26 “…not many were wise by human standards…”
2 Corinthians 3:4-5 “Not that we are competent in ourselves…”
1 Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young.”
1 Peter 2:9-10 “…you are a royal priesthood…”
1 Peter 4:10-11 “Each one should use whatever gift he has…”
Indigenous Leadership
2
Model, Equip, Watch & Leave
Timothy 2:2 “…entrust to reliable men…”
Titus
1:5 “…appoint elders in every town…
Multiple Church Leaders
1 Corinthians 12:7 “Now to each one…the Spirit is given for the common
good.
1 Corinthians 14:26 “…everyone has a hymn, or a word…a revelation…’”
Ephesians 4:11-16 “…some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some…”
Oikos Evangelism
- Community Implications to Evangelism
Acts 16:15 “…she and the members of her household were baptized.”
Acts 16:31 “…you will be saved—you and your household.”
Paradigm Shift
Habakkuk 1:5 “…you would not believe even if you were
told.”
Matt. 9:17 “…new wineskins”
Romans 12:1 “Be not conformed to this world…”
Jonah 1-4 -The reluctant missionary
Persecution and Suffering
Matthew 10:17-25 “A student is not above his teacher.”
2 Corinthians 11:23-29 “I have known hunger and thirst.”
1 Peter 4:12-13 “Do not be surprised [that] you are
suffering.”
Revelation 6:9-11 “How long [until] you avenge our blood?”
Revelation 12:10-12 “He is filled with fury, he knows his
time
is short.”
PRAYER
Psalms 2:8 “…ask of me and I will give you the ends of
the earth.”
Luke 5:16 “…Jesus often went off to a lonely place and
prayed.”
Luke 6:12 “…Jesus…spent the night praying to God…”
RAPID SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL
Acts 2:47 “…the Lord added to their number daily
those…being saved.”
Acts 19:20 “In this way the word of the Lord spread widely
and grew in power.”
Rapid Assimilation of New Believers
Acts 2:41 “Those who accepted his message were
baptized…that day.”
Acts8:26-39 “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”
Acts 16:5 “…the churches…grew daily in numbers.”
Acts 18:5 “…grew daily in numbers.”
Remove Obstacles
Luke 3:4-6 “…make straight the way of the Lord…”
The Man of Peace, Opening New Work
Luke 10:1-18 …when you enter a town…”
Unreached People Groups
Matthew 18:12-13 - Parable of the Lost Sheep
Romans 15:20-23 “…my ambition to preach where Christ
was
not known”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
1. Start with prayer – know the mind of God and join Him in His
work
2. Everything is grounded in Scripture
3. Focus is on households, not individuals
4. Make Disciples, not converts
5. Teach obedience-based discipleship, not knowledge-based
6. Plan your work and work your plan – be intentional in
Evangelism and Church Planting
CRITICAL ELEMENT
7. Start with the Man of Peace or an existing relationship that will
permit a Discovery Bible Study or Witness
8. Form new believers into minimum practice groups that will
become churches
9. Develop a group DNA of urgent obedience that will reach out
to “ALL”
10. Develop a group DNA of rapidly reproducing disciples,
leaders, groups and churches
11. Training is done “On the Job”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
12. Keep all things reproducible by local leaders
13. Use unpaid local leaders to start new groups
14. Authority of Scripture and the Holy Spirit are all that is needed
to start
15. Do not require cultural suicide
16. Persecution is part of being a Christian
17. Discipleship and Training are continuous and primarily done
through mentoring
18. Model, Equip, Watch, and Leave
COUNTER INTUITIVE
1. Go slow at first to go fast later… focus on few to win may
2. Stay only where Jesus has prepared someone’s heart to hear
and obey
3. Do not focus on personal evangelism… focus on evangelizing
the whole community through families
4. Start with creation not Christ
5. Disciple people to conversion… not vice versa
6. A novice insider will produce more fruit than a highly trained
outsider
COUNTER INTUITIVE
7. Prepare to spend a long time making strong disciples, but
anticipate miracle accelerations
8. The best time for a church to plant a new church is when it is
brand new
9. Focus on discipling ordinary people not developing
”Professional” Christians
10. Expect the hardest places to yield the greatest result
11. Small for-profit project often yield much higher long term
access to resistant areas than free services
9. Train,
Coach,
Mentor,
watch and
Leave
1. Identify
Community
2. Pray for
Community
8. Identify
Natural Local
Leader(S)
Baptize, believing
families, Plant a
Church
3. Do
Community
Profile
/People group
7. Share Testimony &
Stories.
Start Discovery Bible
study
6. Create
Relationship
Through
service
4. Send Spies
5. Identify
Person/
Family of
Peace
CHURCH GROWTH TYPES
People are inspired
and saved
Elephant Type Church
•Big
• Lots of Programs
• Holy Atmosphere (“church-like”)
・Stained glass
・Choir
・Good preaching
Slow to Multiply
•Fertile four time a year
•One baby per pregnancy (22 month gestation period)
•Sexual Maturity … 18 Years
Indispensable
Need to grow
One Pair of Elephants
One Pair of Elephants
…The family grows from 2 to 3
Each
5,500 kg
Total
16,500 kg
Rabbit Type Church
•Small Group Oriented
•Scripture is Primary Source of all Teaching
Rabbits are small,
Multiply Rapidly
Rabbits
• Practically continuously fertile
• Average of 7 babies per pregnancy
(1 month gestation period)
• Sexual Maturity… 4 months
… 3 years… Two Rabbits
In
become…
Each
1 kg
Total
476,000,000
kg
476 Million
SPECK
S – Is there a Sin to avoid or confess?
P – Is there a promise, a prayer, or praise in this
passage?
E – Is there an example to follow (or not follow)?
C – Is there a command to obey?
K – Is there knowledge that I need to retain?
What are we going to do with what we have learned
TODAY?
Text
John 3:16-17
What do you
understand?
How can you
Obey?
How can you
teach others to
Obey?
John 3:16 -17
"For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world
through him.
Slide 21
By
Pastor Shodankeh Johnson
INTRODUCTION
THE PRESENT SCENARIO
Encountering the World of Islam
1/5 of humanity bows to Islam’s Allah
20% of the world are Muslims
60% of the worlds poor are Muslim
80% of the world’s refugees are Muslim
GO TO
MATTHEW 28:16-20
People
who hate you
People who will want to kill you
Those we love and fear
People who don’t love you
People who are different from you
Go refers to change of heart rather than
just moving
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT CHURCH PLANTING
You will not find “Church Planting Movements”
mentioned anywhere in the Bible. Yet, the first
century world was swirling with new converts and
multiplying indigenous churches planting
churches which are Church Planting Movements.
Let’s take a look at the characteristics of Church
Planting Movements and see what the Bible has
to say about them.
Abundant Gospel Sowing
2 Corinthians 9:6
“…whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
1 Thessalonians 1:8
“The Lord’s message rang out from you…”
All Peoples Will Be Reached
Psalms 67 “Let all the peoples praise you.”
Matthew 24:3, 14 “…and this gospel shall be preached to all
peoples.”
Revelation 5:9 “..you purchased men for God from every tribe…”
Revelation 7:9 “…a multitude that no one could count, from every
nation…”
Revelation 15:4 “All nations will come and worship before you.”
Psalm 96 “Ascribe to the Lord, O families of nations…”
God Will Do It
Philippians 1:6 “He who began…will do it.”
1 Peter 4:11 “…do it with the strength God provides.”
God’s Word
Acts 17:11 “…examined the Scriptures every day to see if…”
HOUSE CHURCHES
Acts 5:42 “…from house to house…”
Acts 8:3 “Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to
house…”
Acts 12:12 “…the house of Mary…where many people had
gathered…”
Romans 16:5 “Greet also the church that meets at their house.”
1 Corinthians 16:19 “…the church that meets at their house.”
Colossians 4:15 “…the church in her house.”
Philemon 2 “…the church that meets in your home.”
Lay Leadership
Psalm 119:97-100 “I have more insight than my teachers…for I obey…”
Jeremiah 1:7 “Do not say, ‘I am only a child…’”
Luke 8:39 “…so the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus…”
Acts 4:13 “…they were unschooled, ordinary men.”
1 Corinthians 1:26 “…not many were wise by human standards…”
2 Corinthians 3:4-5 “Not that we are competent in ourselves…”
1 Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young.”
1 Peter 2:9-10 “…you are a royal priesthood…”
1 Peter 4:10-11 “Each one should use whatever gift he has…”
Indigenous Leadership
2
Model, Equip, Watch & Leave
Timothy 2:2 “…entrust to reliable men…”
Titus
1:5 “…appoint elders in every town…
Multiple Church Leaders
1 Corinthians 12:7 “Now to each one…the Spirit is given for the common
good.
1 Corinthians 14:26 “…everyone has a hymn, or a word…a revelation…’”
Ephesians 4:11-16 “…some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some…”
Oikos Evangelism
- Community Implications to Evangelism
Acts 16:15 “…she and the members of her household were baptized.”
Acts 16:31 “…you will be saved—you and your household.”
Paradigm Shift
Habakkuk 1:5 “…you would not believe even if you were
told.”
Matt. 9:17 “…new wineskins”
Romans 12:1 “Be not conformed to this world…”
Jonah 1-4 -The reluctant missionary
Persecution and Suffering
Matthew 10:17-25 “A student is not above his teacher.”
2 Corinthians 11:23-29 “I have known hunger and thirst.”
1 Peter 4:12-13 “Do not be surprised [that] you are
suffering.”
Revelation 6:9-11 “How long [until] you avenge our blood?”
Revelation 12:10-12 “He is filled with fury, he knows his
time
is short.”
PRAYER
Psalms 2:8 “…ask of me and I will give you the ends of
the earth.”
Luke 5:16 “…Jesus often went off to a lonely place and
prayed.”
Luke 6:12 “…Jesus…spent the night praying to God…”
RAPID SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL
Acts 2:47 “…the Lord added to their number daily
those…being saved.”
Acts 19:20 “In this way the word of the Lord spread widely
and grew in power.”
Rapid Assimilation of New Believers
Acts 2:41 “Those who accepted his message were
baptized…that day.”
Acts8:26-39 “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”
Acts 16:5 “…the churches…grew daily in numbers.”
Acts 18:5 “…grew daily in numbers.”
Remove Obstacles
Luke 3:4-6 “…make straight the way of the Lord…”
The Man of Peace, Opening New Work
Luke 10:1-18 …when you enter a town…”
Unreached People Groups
Matthew 18:12-13 - Parable of the Lost Sheep
Romans 15:20-23 “…my ambition to preach where Christ
was
not known”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
1. Start with prayer – know the mind of God and join Him in His
work
2. Everything is grounded in Scripture
3. Focus is on households, not individuals
4. Make Disciples, not converts
5. Teach obedience-based discipleship, not knowledge-based
6. Plan your work and work your plan – be intentional in
Evangelism and Church Planting
CRITICAL ELEMENT
7. Start with the Man of Peace or an existing relationship that will
permit a Discovery Bible Study or Witness
8. Form new believers into minimum practice groups that will
become churches
9. Develop a group DNA of urgent obedience that will reach out
to “ALL”
10. Develop a group DNA of rapidly reproducing disciples,
leaders, groups and churches
11. Training is done “On the Job”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
12. Keep all things reproducible by local leaders
13. Use unpaid local leaders to start new groups
14. Authority of Scripture and the Holy Spirit are all that is needed
to start
15. Do not require cultural suicide
16. Persecution is part of being a Christian
17. Discipleship and Training are continuous and primarily done
through mentoring
18. Model, Equip, Watch, and Leave
COUNTER INTUITIVE
1. Go slow at first to go fast later… focus on few to win may
2. Stay only where Jesus has prepared someone’s heart to hear
and obey
3. Do not focus on personal evangelism… focus on evangelizing
the whole community through families
4. Start with creation not Christ
5. Disciple people to conversion… not vice versa
6. A novice insider will produce more fruit than a highly trained
outsider
COUNTER INTUITIVE
7. Prepare to spend a long time making strong disciples, but
anticipate miracle accelerations
8. The best time for a church to plant a new church is when it is
brand new
9. Focus on discipling ordinary people not developing
”Professional” Christians
10. Expect the hardest places to yield the greatest result
11. Small for-profit project often yield much higher long term
access to resistant areas than free services
9. Train,
Coach,
Mentor,
watch and
Leave
1. Identify
Community
2. Pray for
Community
8. Identify
Natural Local
Leader(S)
Baptize, believing
families, Plant a
Church
3. Do
Community
Profile
/People group
7. Share Testimony &
Stories.
Start Discovery Bible
study
6. Create
Relationship
Through
service
4. Send Spies
5. Identify
Person/
Family of
Peace
CHURCH GROWTH TYPES
People are inspired
and saved
Elephant Type Church
•Big
• Lots of Programs
• Holy Atmosphere (“church-like”)
・Stained glass
・Choir
・Good preaching
Slow to Multiply
•Fertile four time a year
•One baby per pregnancy (22 month gestation period)
•Sexual Maturity … 18 Years
Indispensable
Need to grow
One Pair of Elephants
One Pair of Elephants
…The family grows from 2 to 3
Each
5,500 kg
Total
16,500 kg
Rabbit Type Church
•Small Group Oriented
•Scripture is Primary Source of all Teaching
Rabbits are small,
Multiply Rapidly
Rabbits
• Practically continuously fertile
• Average of 7 babies per pregnancy
(1 month gestation period)
• Sexual Maturity… 4 months
… 3 years… Two Rabbits
In
become…
Each
1 kg
Total
476,000,000
kg
476 Million
SPECK
S – Is there a Sin to avoid or confess?
P – Is there a promise, a prayer, or praise in this
passage?
E – Is there an example to follow (or not follow)?
C – Is there a command to obey?
K – Is there knowledge that I need to retain?
What are we going to do with what we have learned
TODAY?
Text
John 3:16-17
What do you
understand?
How can you
Obey?
How can you
teach others to
Obey?
John 3:16 -17
"For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world
through him.
Slide 22
By
Pastor Shodankeh Johnson
INTRODUCTION
THE PRESENT SCENARIO
Encountering the World of Islam
1/5 of humanity bows to Islam’s Allah
20% of the world are Muslims
60% of the worlds poor are Muslim
80% of the world’s refugees are Muslim
GO TO
MATTHEW 28:16-20
People
who hate you
People who will want to kill you
Those we love and fear
People who don’t love you
People who are different from you
Go refers to change of heart rather than
just moving
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT CHURCH PLANTING
You will not find “Church Planting Movements”
mentioned anywhere in the Bible. Yet, the first
century world was swirling with new converts and
multiplying indigenous churches planting
churches which are Church Planting Movements.
Let’s take a look at the characteristics of Church
Planting Movements and see what the Bible has
to say about them.
Abundant Gospel Sowing
2 Corinthians 9:6
“…whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
1 Thessalonians 1:8
“The Lord’s message rang out from you…”
All Peoples Will Be Reached
Psalms 67 “Let all the peoples praise you.”
Matthew 24:3, 14 “…and this gospel shall be preached to all
peoples.”
Revelation 5:9 “..you purchased men for God from every tribe…”
Revelation 7:9 “…a multitude that no one could count, from every
nation…”
Revelation 15:4 “All nations will come and worship before you.”
Psalm 96 “Ascribe to the Lord, O families of nations…”
God Will Do It
Philippians 1:6 “He who began…will do it.”
1 Peter 4:11 “…do it with the strength God provides.”
God’s Word
Acts 17:11 “…examined the Scriptures every day to see if…”
HOUSE CHURCHES
Acts 5:42 “…from house to house…”
Acts 8:3 “Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to
house…”
Acts 12:12 “…the house of Mary…where many people had
gathered…”
Romans 16:5 “Greet also the church that meets at their house.”
1 Corinthians 16:19 “…the church that meets at their house.”
Colossians 4:15 “…the church in her house.”
Philemon 2 “…the church that meets in your home.”
Lay Leadership
Psalm 119:97-100 “I have more insight than my teachers…for I obey…”
Jeremiah 1:7 “Do not say, ‘I am only a child…’”
Luke 8:39 “…so the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus…”
Acts 4:13 “…they were unschooled, ordinary men.”
1 Corinthians 1:26 “…not many were wise by human standards…”
2 Corinthians 3:4-5 “Not that we are competent in ourselves…”
1 Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young.”
1 Peter 2:9-10 “…you are a royal priesthood…”
1 Peter 4:10-11 “Each one should use whatever gift he has…”
Indigenous Leadership
2
Model, Equip, Watch & Leave
Timothy 2:2 “…entrust to reliable men…”
Titus
1:5 “…appoint elders in every town…
Multiple Church Leaders
1 Corinthians 12:7 “Now to each one…the Spirit is given for the common
good.
1 Corinthians 14:26 “…everyone has a hymn, or a word…a revelation…’”
Ephesians 4:11-16 “…some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some…”
Oikos Evangelism
- Community Implications to Evangelism
Acts 16:15 “…she and the members of her household were baptized.”
Acts 16:31 “…you will be saved—you and your household.”
Paradigm Shift
Habakkuk 1:5 “…you would not believe even if you were
told.”
Matt. 9:17 “…new wineskins”
Romans 12:1 “Be not conformed to this world…”
Jonah 1-4 -The reluctant missionary
Persecution and Suffering
Matthew 10:17-25 “A student is not above his teacher.”
2 Corinthians 11:23-29 “I have known hunger and thirst.”
1 Peter 4:12-13 “Do not be surprised [that] you are
suffering.”
Revelation 6:9-11 “How long [until] you avenge our blood?”
Revelation 12:10-12 “He is filled with fury, he knows his
time
is short.”
PRAYER
Psalms 2:8 “…ask of me and I will give you the ends of
the earth.”
Luke 5:16 “…Jesus often went off to a lonely place and
prayed.”
Luke 6:12 “…Jesus…spent the night praying to God…”
RAPID SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL
Acts 2:47 “…the Lord added to their number daily
those…being saved.”
Acts 19:20 “In this way the word of the Lord spread widely
and grew in power.”
Rapid Assimilation of New Believers
Acts 2:41 “Those who accepted his message were
baptized…that day.”
Acts8:26-39 “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”
Acts 16:5 “…the churches…grew daily in numbers.”
Acts 18:5 “…grew daily in numbers.”
Remove Obstacles
Luke 3:4-6 “…make straight the way of the Lord…”
The Man of Peace, Opening New Work
Luke 10:1-18 …when you enter a town…”
Unreached People Groups
Matthew 18:12-13 - Parable of the Lost Sheep
Romans 15:20-23 “…my ambition to preach where Christ
was
not known”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
1. Start with prayer – know the mind of God and join Him in His
work
2. Everything is grounded in Scripture
3. Focus is on households, not individuals
4. Make Disciples, not converts
5. Teach obedience-based discipleship, not knowledge-based
6. Plan your work and work your plan – be intentional in
Evangelism and Church Planting
CRITICAL ELEMENT
7. Start with the Man of Peace or an existing relationship that will
permit a Discovery Bible Study or Witness
8. Form new believers into minimum practice groups that will
become churches
9. Develop a group DNA of urgent obedience that will reach out
to “ALL”
10. Develop a group DNA of rapidly reproducing disciples,
leaders, groups and churches
11. Training is done “On the Job”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
12. Keep all things reproducible by local leaders
13. Use unpaid local leaders to start new groups
14. Authority of Scripture and the Holy Spirit are all that is needed
to start
15. Do not require cultural suicide
16. Persecution is part of being a Christian
17. Discipleship and Training are continuous and primarily done
through mentoring
18. Model, Equip, Watch, and Leave
COUNTER INTUITIVE
1. Go slow at first to go fast later… focus on few to win may
2. Stay only where Jesus has prepared someone’s heart to hear
and obey
3. Do not focus on personal evangelism… focus on evangelizing
the whole community through families
4. Start with creation not Christ
5. Disciple people to conversion… not vice versa
6. A novice insider will produce more fruit than a highly trained
outsider
COUNTER INTUITIVE
7. Prepare to spend a long time making strong disciples, but
anticipate miracle accelerations
8. The best time for a church to plant a new church is when it is
brand new
9. Focus on discipling ordinary people not developing
”Professional” Christians
10. Expect the hardest places to yield the greatest result
11. Small for-profit project often yield much higher long term
access to resistant areas than free services
9. Train,
Coach,
Mentor,
watch and
Leave
1. Identify
Community
2. Pray for
Community
8. Identify
Natural Local
Leader(S)
Baptize, believing
families, Plant a
Church
3. Do
Community
Profile
/People group
7. Share Testimony &
Stories.
Start Discovery Bible
study
6. Create
Relationship
Through
service
4. Send Spies
5. Identify
Person/
Family of
Peace
CHURCH GROWTH TYPES
People are inspired
and saved
Elephant Type Church
•Big
• Lots of Programs
• Holy Atmosphere (“church-like”)
・Stained glass
・Choir
・Good preaching
Slow to Multiply
•Fertile four time a year
•One baby per pregnancy (22 month gestation period)
•Sexual Maturity … 18 Years
Indispensable
Need to grow
One Pair of Elephants
One Pair of Elephants
…The family grows from 2 to 3
Each
5,500 kg
Total
16,500 kg
Rabbit Type Church
•Small Group Oriented
•Scripture is Primary Source of all Teaching
Rabbits are small,
Multiply Rapidly
Rabbits
• Practically continuously fertile
• Average of 7 babies per pregnancy
(1 month gestation period)
• Sexual Maturity… 4 months
… 3 years… Two Rabbits
In
become…
Each
1 kg
Total
476,000,000
kg
476 Million
SPECK
S – Is there a Sin to avoid or confess?
P – Is there a promise, a prayer, or praise in this
passage?
E – Is there an example to follow (or not follow)?
C – Is there a command to obey?
K – Is there knowledge that I need to retain?
What are we going to do with what we have learned
TODAY?
Text
John 3:16-17
What do you
understand?
How can you
Obey?
How can you
teach others to
Obey?
John 3:16 -17
"For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world
through him.
Slide 23
By
Pastor Shodankeh Johnson
INTRODUCTION
THE PRESENT SCENARIO
Encountering the World of Islam
1/5 of humanity bows to Islam’s Allah
20% of the world are Muslims
60% of the worlds poor are Muslim
80% of the world’s refugees are Muslim
GO TO
MATTHEW 28:16-20
People
who hate you
People who will want to kill you
Those we love and fear
People who don’t love you
People who are different from you
Go refers to change of heart rather than
just moving
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT CHURCH PLANTING
You will not find “Church Planting Movements”
mentioned anywhere in the Bible. Yet, the first
century world was swirling with new converts and
multiplying indigenous churches planting
churches which are Church Planting Movements.
Let’s take a look at the characteristics of Church
Planting Movements and see what the Bible has
to say about them.
Abundant Gospel Sowing
2 Corinthians 9:6
“…whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
1 Thessalonians 1:8
“The Lord’s message rang out from you…”
All Peoples Will Be Reached
Psalms 67 “Let all the peoples praise you.”
Matthew 24:3, 14 “…and this gospel shall be preached to all
peoples.”
Revelation 5:9 “..you purchased men for God from every tribe…”
Revelation 7:9 “…a multitude that no one could count, from every
nation…”
Revelation 15:4 “All nations will come and worship before you.”
Psalm 96 “Ascribe to the Lord, O families of nations…”
God Will Do It
Philippians 1:6 “He who began…will do it.”
1 Peter 4:11 “…do it with the strength God provides.”
God’s Word
Acts 17:11 “…examined the Scriptures every day to see if…”
HOUSE CHURCHES
Acts 5:42 “…from house to house…”
Acts 8:3 “Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to
house…”
Acts 12:12 “…the house of Mary…where many people had
gathered…”
Romans 16:5 “Greet also the church that meets at their house.”
1 Corinthians 16:19 “…the church that meets at their house.”
Colossians 4:15 “…the church in her house.”
Philemon 2 “…the church that meets in your home.”
Lay Leadership
Psalm 119:97-100 “I have more insight than my teachers…for I obey…”
Jeremiah 1:7 “Do not say, ‘I am only a child…’”
Luke 8:39 “…so the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus…”
Acts 4:13 “…they were unschooled, ordinary men.”
1 Corinthians 1:26 “…not many were wise by human standards…”
2 Corinthians 3:4-5 “Not that we are competent in ourselves…”
1 Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young.”
1 Peter 2:9-10 “…you are a royal priesthood…”
1 Peter 4:10-11 “Each one should use whatever gift he has…”
Indigenous Leadership
2
Model, Equip, Watch & Leave
Timothy 2:2 “…entrust to reliable men…”
Titus
1:5 “…appoint elders in every town…
Multiple Church Leaders
1 Corinthians 12:7 “Now to each one…the Spirit is given for the common
good.
1 Corinthians 14:26 “…everyone has a hymn, or a word…a revelation…’”
Ephesians 4:11-16 “…some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some…”
Oikos Evangelism
- Community Implications to Evangelism
Acts 16:15 “…she and the members of her household were baptized.”
Acts 16:31 “…you will be saved—you and your household.”
Paradigm Shift
Habakkuk 1:5 “…you would not believe even if you were
told.”
Matt. 9:17 “…new wineskins”
Romans 12:1 “Be not conformed to this world…”
Jonah 1-4 -The reluctant missionary
Persecution and Suffering
Matthew 10:17-25 “A student is not above his teacher.”
2 Corinthians 11:23-29 “I have known hunger and thirst.”
1 Peter 4:12-13 “Do not be surprised [that] you are
suffering.”
Revelation 6:9-11 “How long [until] you avenge our blood?”
Revelation 12:10-12 “He is filled with fury, he knows his
time
is short.”
PRAYER
Psalms 2:8 “…ask of me and I will give you the ends of
the earth.”
Luke 5:16 “…Jesus often went off to a lonely place and
prayed.”
Luke 6:12 “…Jesus…spent the night praying to God…”
RAPID SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL
Acts 2:47 “…the Lord added to their number daily
those…being saved.”
Acts 19:20 “In this way the word of the Lord spread widely
and grew in power.”
Rapid Assimilation of New Believers
Acts 2:41 “Those who accepted his message were
baptized…that day.”
Acts8:26-39 “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”
Acts 16:5 “…the churches…grew daily in numbers.”
Acts 18:5 “…grew daily in numbers.”
Remove Obstacles
Luke 3:4-6 “…make straight the way of the Lord…”
The Man of Peace, Opening New Work
Luke 10:1-18 …when you enter a town…”
Unreached People Groups
Matthew 18:12-13 - Parable of the Lost Sheep
Romans 15:20-23 “…my ambition to preach where Christ
was
not known”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
1. Start with prayer – know the mind of God and join Him in His
work
2. Everything is grounded in Scripture
3. Focus is on households, not individuals
4. Make Disciples, not converts
5. Teach obedience-based discipleship, not knowledge-based
6. Plan your work and work your plan – be intentional in
Evangelism and Church Planting
CRITICAL ELEMENT
7. Start with the Man of Peace or an existing relationship that will
permit a Discovery Bible Study or Witness
8. Form new believers into minimum practice groups that will
become churches
9. Develop a group DNA of urgent obedience that will reach out
to “ALL”
10. Develop a group DNA of rapidly reproducing disciples,
leaders, groups and churches
11. Training is done “On the Job”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
12. Keep all things reproducible by local leaders
13. Use unpaid local leaders to start new groups
14. Authority of Scripture and the Holy Spirit are all that is needed
to start
15. Do not require cultural suicide
16. Persecution is part of being a Christian
17. Discipleship and Training are continuous and primarily done
through mentoring
18. Model, Equip, Watch, and Leave
COUNTER INTUITIVE
1. Go slow at first to go fast later… focus on few to win may
2. Stay only where Jesus has prepared someone’s heart to hear
and obey
3. Do not focus on personal evangelism… focus on evangelizing
the whole community through families
4. Start with creation not Christ
5. Disciple people to conversion… not vice versa
6. A novice insider will produce more fruit than a highly trained
outsider
COUNTER INTUITIVE
7. Prepare to spend a long time making strong disciples, but
anticipate miracle accelerations
8. The best time for a church to plant a new church is when it is
brand new
9. Focus on discipling ordinary people not developing
”Professional” Christians
10. Expect the hardest places to yield the greatest result
11. Small for-profit project often yield much higher long term
access to resistant areas than free services
9. Train,
Coach,
Mentor,
watch and
Leave
1. Identify
Community
2. Pray for
Community
8. Identify
Natural Local
Leader(S)
Baptize, believing
families, Plant a
Church
3. Do
Community
Profile
/People group
7. Share Testimony &
Stories.
Start Discovery Bible
study
6. Create
Relationship
Through
service
4. Send Spies
5. Identify
Person/
Family of
Peace
CHURCH GROWTH TYPES
People are inspired
and saved
Elephant Type Church
•Big
• Lots of Programs
• Holy Atmosphere (“church-like”)
・Stained glass
・Choir
・Good preaching
Slow to Multiply
•Fertile four time a year
•One baby per pregnancy (22 month gestation period)
•Sexual Maturity … 18 Years
Indispensable
Need to grow
One Pair of Elephants
One Pair of Elephants
…The family grows from 2 to 3
Each
5,500 kg
Total
16,500 kg
Rabbit Type Church
•Small Group Oriented
•Scripture is Primary Source of all Teaching
Rabbits are small,
Multiply Rapidly
Rabbits
• Practically continuously fertile
• Average of 7 babies per pregnancy
(1 month gestation period)
• Sexual Maturity… 4 months
… 3 years… Two Rabbits
In
become…
Each
1 kg
Total
476,000,000
kg
476 Million
SPECK
S – Is there a Sin to avoid or confess?
P – Is there a promise, a prayer, or praise in this
passage?
E – Is there an example to follow (or not follow)?
C – Is there a command to obey?
K – Is there knowledge that I need to retain?
What are we going to do with what we have learned
TODAY?
Text
John 3:16-17
What do you
understand?
How can you
Obey?
How can you
teach others to
Obey?
John 3:16 -17
"For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world
through him.
Slide 24
By
Pastor Shodankeh Johnson
INTRODUCTION
THE PRESENT SCENARIO
Encountering the World of Islam
1/5 of humanity bows to Islam’s Allah
20% of the world are Muslims
60% of the worlds poor are Muslim
80% of the world’s refugees are Muslim
GO TO
MATTHEW 28:16-20
People
who hate you
People who will want to kill you
Those we love and fear
People who don’t love you
People who are different from you
Go refers to change of heart rather than
just moving
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT CHURCH PLANTING
You will not find “Church Planting Movements”
mentioned anywhere in the Bible. Yet, the first
century world was swirling with new converts and
multiplying indigenous churches planting
churches which are Church Planting Movements.
Let’s take a look at the characteristics of Church
Planting Movements and see what the Bible has
to say about them.
Abundant Gospel Sowing
2 Corinthians 9:6
“…whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
1 Thessalonians 1:8
“The Lord’s message rang out from you…”
All Peoples Will Be Reached
Psalms 67 “Let all the peoples praise you.”
Matthew 24:3, 14 “…and this gospel shall be preached to all
peoples.”
Revelation 5:9 “..you purchased men for God from every tribe…”
Revelation 7:9 “…a multitude that no one could count, from every
nation…”
Revelation 15:4 “All nations will come and worship before you.”
Psalm 96 “Ascribe to the Lord, O families of nations…”
God Will Do It
Philippians 1:6 “He who began…will do it.”
1 Peter 4:11 “…do it with the strength God provides.”
God’s Word
Acts 17:11 “…examined the Scriptures every day to see if…”
HOUSE CHURCHES
Acts 5:42 “…from house to house…”
Acts 8:3 “Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to
house…”
Acts 12:12 “…the house of Mary…where many people had
gathered…”
Romans 16:5 “Greet also the church that meets at their house.”
1 Corinthians 16:19 “…the church that meets at their house.”
Colossians 4:15 “…the church in her house.”
Philemon 2 “…the church that meets in your home.”
Lay Leadership
Psalm 119:97-100 “I have more insight than my teachers…for I obey…”
Jeremiah 1:7 “Do not say, ‘I am only a child…’”
Luke 8:39 “…so the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus…”
Acts 4:13 “…they were unschooled, ordinary men.”
1 Corinthians 1:26 “…not many were wise by human standards…”
2 Corinthians 3:4-5 “Not that we are competent in ourselves…”
1 Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young.”
1 Peter 2:9-10 “…you are a royal priesthood…”
1 Peter 4:10-11 “Each one should use whatever gift he has…”
Indigenous Leadership
2
Model, Equip, Watch & Leave
Timothy 2:2 “…entrust to reliable men…”
Titus
1:5 “…appoint elders in every town…
Multiple Church Leaders
1 Corinthians 12:7 “Now to each one…the Spirit is given for the common
good.
1 Corinthians 14:26 “…everyone has a hymn, or a word…a revelation…’”
Ephesians 4:11-16 “…some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some…”
Oikos Evangelism
- Community Implications to Evangelism
Acts 16:15 “…she and the members of her household were baptized.”
Acts 16:31 “…you will be saved—you and your household.”
Paradigm Shift
Habakkuk 1:5 “…you would not believe even if you were
told.”
Matt. 9:17 “…new wineskins”
Romans 12:1 “Be not conformed to this world…”
Jonah 1-4 -The reluctant missionary
Persecution and Suffering
Matthew 10:17-25 “A student is not above his teacher.”
2 Corinthians 11:23-29 “I have known hunger and thirst.”
1 Peter 4:12-13 “Do not be surprised [that] you are
suffering.”
Revelation 6:9-11 “How long [until] you avenge our blood?”
Revelation 12:10-12 “He is filled with fury, he knows his
time
is short.”
PRAYER
Psalms 2:8 “…ask of me and I will give you the ends of
the earth.”
Luke 5:16 “…Jesus often went off to a lonely place and
prayed.”
Luke 6:12 “…Jesus…spent the night praying to God…”
RAPID SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL
Acts 2:47 “…the Lord added to their number daily
those…being saved.”
Acts 19:20 “In this way the word of the Lord spread widely
and grew in power.”
Rapid Assimilation of New Believers
Acts 2:41 “Those who accepted his message were
baptized…that day.”
Acts8:26-39 “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”
Acts 16:5 “…the churches…grew daily in numbers.”
Acts 18:5 “…grew daily in numbers.”
Remove Obstacles
Luke 3:4-6 “…make straight the way of the Lord…”
The Man of Peace, Opening New Work
Luke 10:1-18 …when you enter a town…”
Unreached People Groups
Matthew 18:12-13 - Parable of the Lost Sheep
Romans 15:20-23 “…my ambition to preach where Christ
was
not known”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
1. Start with prayer – know the mind of God and join Him in His
work
2. Everything is grounded in Scripture
3. Focus is on households, not individuals
4. Make Disciples, not converts
5. Teach obedience-based discipleship, not knowledge-based
6. Plan your work and work your plan – be intentional in
Evangelism and Church Planting
CRITICAL ELEMENT
7. Start with the Man of Peace or an existing relationship that will
permit a Discovery Bible Study or Witness
8. Form new believers into minimum practice groups that will
become churches
9. Develop a group DNA of urgent obedience that will reach out
to “ALL”
10. Develop a group DNA of rapidly reproducing disciples,
leaders, groups and churches
11. Training is done “On the Job”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
12. Keep all things reproducible by local leaders
13. Use unpaid local leaders to start new groups
14. Authority of Scripture and the Holy Spirit are all that is needed
to start
15. Do not require cultural suicide
16. Persecution is part of being a Christian
17. Discipleship and Training are continuous and primarily done
through mentoring
18. Model, Equip, Watch, and Leave
COUNTER INTUITIVE
1. Go slow at first to go fast later… focus on few to win may
2. Stay only where Jesus has prepared someone’s heart to hear
and obey
3. Do not focus on personal evangelism… focus on evangelizing
the whole community through families
4. Start with creation not Christ
5. Disciple people to conversion… not vice versa
6. A novice insider will produce more fruit than a highly trained
outsider
COUNTER INTUITIVE
7. Prepare to spend a long time making strong disciples, but
anticipate miracle accelerations
8. The best time for a church to plant a new church is when it is
brand new
9. Focus on discipling ordinary people not developing
”Professional” Christians
10. Expect the hardest places to yield the greatest result
11. Small for-profit project often yield much higher long term
access to resistant areas than free services
9. Train,
Coach,
Mentor,
watch and
Leave
1. Identify
Community
2. Pray for
Community
8. Identify
Natural Local
Leader(S)
Baptize, believing
families, Plant a
Church
3. Do
Community
Profile
/People group
7. Share Testimony &
Stories.
Start Discovery Bible
study
6. Create
Relationship
Through
service
4. Send Spies
5. Identify
Person/
Family of
Peace
CHURCH GROWTH TYPES
People are inspired
and saved
Elephant Type Church
•Big
• Lots of Programs
• Holy Atmosphere (“church-like”)
・Stained glass
・Choir
・Good preaching
Slow to Multiply
•Fertile four time a year
•One baby per pregnancy (22 month gestation period)
•Sexual Maturity … 18 Years
Indispensable
Need to grow
One Pair of Elephants
One Pair of Elephants
…The family grows from 2 to 3
Each
5,500 kg
Total
16,500 kg
Rabbit Type Church
•Small Group Oriented
•Scripture is Primary Source of all Teaching
Rabbits are small,
Multiply Rapidly
Rabbits
• Practically continuously fertile
• Average of 7 babies per pregnancy
(1 month gestation period)
• Sexual Maturity… 4 months
… 3 years… Two Rabbits
In
become…
Each
1 kg
Total
476,000,000
kg
476 Million
SPECK
S – Is there a Sin to avoid or confess?
P – Is there a promise, a prayer, or praise in this
passage?
E – Is there an example to follow (or not follow)?
C – Is there a command to obey?
K – Is there knowledge that I need to retain?
What are we going to do with what we have learned
TODAY?
Text
John 3:16-17
What do you
understand?
How can you
Obey?
How can you
teach others to
Obey?
John 3:16 -17
"For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world
through him.
Slide 25
By
Pastor Shodankeh Johnson
INTRODUCTION
THE PRESENT SCENARIO
Encountering the World of Islam
1/5 of humanity bows to Islam’s Allah
20% of the world are Muslims
60% of the worlds poor are Muslim
80% of the world’s refugees are Muslim
GO TO
MATTHEW 28:16-20
People
who hate you
People who will want to kill you
Those we love and fear
People who don’t love you
People who are different from you
Go refers to change of heart rather than
just moving
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT CHURCH PLANTING
You will not find “Church Planting Movements”
mentioned anywhere in the Bible. Yet, the first
century world was swirling with new converts and
multiplying indigenous churches planting
churches which are Church Planting Movements.
Let’s take a look at the characteristics of Church
Planting Movements and see what the Bible has
to say about them.
Abundant Gospel Sowing
2 Corinthians 9:6
“…whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
1 Thessalonians 1:8
“The Lord’s message rang out from you…”
All Peoples Will Be Reached
Psalms 67 “Let all the peoples praise you.”
Matthew 24:3, 14 “…and this gospel shall be preached to all
peoples.”
Revelation 5:9 “..you purchased men for God from every tribe…”
Revelation 7:9 “…a multitude that no one could count, from every
nation…”
Revelation 15:4 “All nations will come and worship before you.”
Psalm 96 “Ascribe to the Lord, O families of nations…”
God Will Do It
Philippians 1:6 “He who began…will do it.”
1 Peter 4:11 “…do it with the strength God provides.”
God’s Word
Acts 17:11 “…examined the Scriptures every day to see if…”
HOUSE CHURCHES
Acts 5:42 “…from house to house…”
Acts 8:3 “Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to
house…”
Acts 12:12 “…the house of Mary…where many people had
gathered…”
Romans 16:5 “Greet also the church that meets at their house.”
1 Corinthians 16:19 “…the church that meets at their house.”
Colossians 4:15 “…the church in her house.”
Philemon 2 “…the church that meets in your home.”
Lay Leadership
Psalm 119:97-100 “I have more insight than my teachers…for I obey…”
Jeremiah 1:7 “Do not say, ‘I am only a child…’”
Luke 8:39 “…so the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus…”
Acts 4:13 “…they were unschooled, ordinary men.”
1 Corinthians 1:26 “…not many were wise by human standards…”
2 Corinthians 3:4-5 “Not that we are competent in ourselves…”
1 Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young.”
1 Peter 2:9-10 “…you are a royal priesthood…”
1 Peter 4:10-11 “Each one should use whatever gift he has…”
Indigenous Leadership
2
Model, Equip, Watch & Leave
Timothy 2:2 “…entrust to reliable men…”
Titus
1:5 “…appoint elders in every town…
Multiple Church Leaders
1 Corinthians 12:7 “Now to each one…the Spirit is given for the common
good.
1 Corinthians 14:26 “…everyone has a hymn, or a word…a revelation…’”
Ephesians 4:11-16 “…some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some…”
Oikos Evangelism
- Community Implications to Evangelism
Acts 16:15 “…she and the members of her household were baptized.”
Acts 16:31 “…you will be saved—you and your household.”
Paradigm Shift
Habakkuk 1:5 “…you would not believe even if you were
told.”
Matt. 9:17 “…new wineskins”
Romans 12:1 “Be not conformed to this world…”
Jonah 1-4 -The reluctant missionary
Persecution and Suffering
Matthew 10:17-25 “A student is not above his teacher.”
2 Corinthians 11:23-29 “I have known hunger and thirst.”
1 Peter 4:12-13 “Do not be surprised [that] you are
suffering.”
Revelation 6:9-11 “How long [until] you avenge our blood?”
Revelation 12:10-12 “He is filled with fury, he knows his
time
is short.”
PRAYER
Psalms 2:8 “…ask of me and I will give you the ends of
the earth.”
Luke 5:16 “…Jesus often went off to a lonely place and
prayed.”
Luke 6:12 “…Jesus…spent the night praying to God…”
RAPID SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL
Acts 2:47 “…the Lord added to their number daily
those…being saved.”
Acts 19:20 “In this way the word of the Lord spread widely
and grew in power.”
Rapid Assimilation of New Believers
Acts 2:41 “Those who accepted his message were
baptized…that day.”
Acts8:26-39 “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”
Acts 16:5 “…the churches…grew daily in numbers.”
Acts 18:5 “…grew daily in numbers.”
Remove Obstacles
Luke 3:4-6 “…make straight the way of the Lord…”
The Man of Peace, Opening New Work
Luke 10:1-18 …when you enter a town…”
Unreached People Groups
Matthew 18:12-13 - Parable of the Lost Sheep
Romans 15:20-23 “…my ambition to preach where Christ
was
not known”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
1. Start with prayer – know the mind of God and join Him in His
work
2. Everything is grounded in Scripture
3. Focus is on households, not individuals
4. Make Disciples, not converts
5. Teach obedience-based discipleship, not knowledge-based
6. Plan your work and work your plan – be intentional in
Evangelism and Church Planting
CRITICAL ELEMENT
7. Start with the Man of Peace or an existing relationship that will
permit a Discovery Bible Study or Witness
8. Form new believers into minimum practice groups that will
become churches
9. Develop a group DNA of urgent obedience that will reach out
to “ALL”
10. Develop a group DNA of rapidly reproducing disciples,
leaders, groups and churches
11. Training is done “On the Job”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
12. Keep all things reproducible by local leaders
13. Use unpaid local leaders to start new groups
14. Authority of Scripture and the Holy Spirit are all that is needed
to start
15. Do not require cultural suicide
16. Persecution is part of being a Christian
17. Discipleship and Training are continuous and primarily done
through mentoring
18. Model, Equip, Watch, and Leave
COUNTER INTUITIVE
1. Go slow at first to go fast later… focus on few to win may
2. Stay only where Jesus has prepared someone’s heart to hear
and obey
3. Do not focus on personal evangelism… focus on evangelizing
the whole community through families
4. Start with creation not Christ
5. Disciple people to conversion… not vice versa
6. A novice insider will produce more fruit than a highly trained
outsider
COUNTER INTUITIVE
7. Prepare to spend a long time making strong disciples, but
anticipate miracle accelerations
8. The best time for a church to plant a new church is when it is
brand new
9. Focus on discipling ordinary people not developing
”Professional” Christians
10. Expect the hardest places to yield the greatest result
11. Small for-profit project often yield much higher long term
access to resistant areas than free services
9. Train,
Coach,
Mentor,
watch and
Leave
1. Identify
Community
2. Pray for
Community
8. Identify
Natural Local
Leader(S)
Baptize, believing
families, Plant a
Church
3. Do
Community
Profile
/People group
7. Share Testimony &
Stories.
Start Discovery Bible
study
6. Create
Relationship
Through
service
4. Send Spies
5. Identify
Person/
Family of
Peace
CHURCH GROWTH TYPES
People are inspired
and saved
Elephant Type Church
•Big
• Lots of Programs
• Holy Atmosphere (“church-like”)
・Stained glass
・Choir
・Good preaching
Slow to Multiply
•Fertile four time a year
•One baby per pregnancy (22 month gestation period)
•Sexual Maturity … 18 Years
Indispensable
Need to grow
One Pair of Elephants
One Pair of Elephants
…The family grows from 2 to 3
Each
5,500 kg
Total
16,500 kg
Rabbit Type Church
•Small Group Oriented
•Scripture is Primary Source of all Teaching
Rabbits are small,
Multiply Rapidly
Rabbits
• Practically continuously fertile
• Average of 7 babies per pregnancy
(1 month gestation period)
• Sexual Maturity… 4 months
… 3 years… Two Rabbits
In
become…
Each
1 kg
Total
476,000,000
kg
476 Million
SPECK
S – Is there a Sin to avoid or confess?
P – Is there a promise, a prayer, or praise in this
passage?
E – Is there an example to follow (or not follow)?
C – Is there a command to obey?
K – Is there knowledge that I need to retain?
What are we going to do with what we have learned
TODAY?
Text
John 3:16-17
What do you
understand?
How can you
Obey?
How can you
teach others to
Obey?
John 3:16 -17
"For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world
through him.
Slide 26
By
Pastor Shodankeh Johnson
INTRODUCTION
THE PRESENT SCENARIO
Encountering the World of Islam
1/5 of humanity bows to Islam’s Allah
20% of the world are Muslims
60% of the worlds poor are Muslim
80% of the world’s refugees are Muslim
GO TO
MATTHEW 28:16-20
People
who hate you
People who will want to kill you
Those we love and fear
People who don’t love you
People who are different from you
Go refers to change of heart rather than
just moving
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT CHURCH PLANTING
You will not find “Church Planting Movements”
mentioned anywhere in the Bible. Yet, the first
century world was swirling with new converts and
multiplying indigenous churches planting
churches which are Church Planting Movements.
Let’s take a look at the characteristics of Church
Planting Movements and see what the Bible has
to say about them.
Abundant Gospel Sowing
2 Corinthians 9:6
“…whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
1 Thessalonians 1:8
“The Lord’s message rang out from you…”
All Peoples Will Be Reached
Psalms 67 “Let all the peoples praise you.”
Matthew 24:3, 14 “…and this gospel shall be preached to all
peoples.”
Revelation 5:9 “..you purchased men for God from every tribe…”
Revelation 7:9 “…a multitude that no one could count, from every
nation…”
Revelation 15:4 “All nations will come and worship before you.”
Psalm 96 “Ascribe to the Lord, O families of nations…”
God Will Do It
Philippians 1:6 “He who began…will do it.”
1 Peter 4:11 “…do it with the strength God provides.”
God’s Word
Acts 17:11 “…examined the Scriptures every day to see if…”
HOUSE CHURCHES
Acts 5:42 “…from house to house…”
Acts 8:3 “Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to
house…”
Acts 12:12 “…the house of Mary…where many people had
gathered…”
Romans 16:5 “Greet also the church that meets at their house.”
1 Corinthians 16:19 “…the church that meets at their house.”
Colossians 4:15 “…the church in her house.”
Philemon 2 “…the church that meets in your home.”
Lay Leadership
Psalm 119:97-100 “I have more insight than my teachers…for I obey…”
Jeremiah 1:7 “Do not say, ‘I am only a child…’”
Luke 8:39 “…so the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus…”
Acts 4:13 “…they were unschooled, ordinary men.”
1 Corinthians 1:26 “…not many were wise by human standards…”
2 Corinthians 3:4-5 “Not that we are competent in ourselves…”
1 Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young.”
1 Peter 2:9-10 “…you are a royal priesthood…”
1 Peter 4:10-11 “Each one should use whatever gift he has…”
Indigenous Leadership
2
Model, Equip, Watch & Leave
Timothy 2:2 “…entrust to reliable men…”
Titus
1:5 “…appoint elders in every town…
Multiple Church Leaders
1 Corinthians 12:7 “Now to each one…the Spirit is given for the common
good.
1 Corinthians 14:26 “…everyone has a hymn, or a word…a revelation…’”
Ephesians 4:11-16 “…some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some…”
Oikos Evangelism
- Community Implications to Evangelism
Acts 16:15 “…she and the members of her household were baptized.”
Acts 16:31 “…you will be saved—you and your household.”
Paradigm Shift
Habakkuk 1:5 “…you would not believe even if you were
told.”
Matt. 9:17 “…new wineskins”
Romans 12:1 “Be not conformed to this world…”
Jonah 1-4 -The reluctant missionary
Persecution and Suffering
Matthew 10:17-25 “A student is not above his teacher.”
2 Corinthians 11:23-29 “I have known hunger and thirst.”
1 Peter 4:12-13 “Do not be surprised [that] you are
suffering.”
Revelation 6:9-11 “How long [until] you avenge our blood?”
Revelation 12:10-12 “He is filled with fury, he knows his
time
is short.”
PRAYER
Psalms 2:8 “…ask of me and I will give you the ends of
the earth.”
Luke 5:16 “…Jesus often went off to a lonely place and
prayed.”
Luke 6:12 “…Jesus…spent the night praying to God…”
RAPID SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL
Acts 2:47 “…the Lord added to their number daily
those…being saved.”
Acts 19:20 “In this way the word of the Lord spread widely
and grew in power.”
Rapid Assimilation of New Believers
Acts 2:41 “Those who accepted his message were
baptized…that day.”
Acts8:26-39 “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”
Acts 16:5 “…the churches…grew daily in numbers.”
Acts 18:5 “…grew daily in numbers.”
Remove Obstacles
Luke 3:4-6 “…make straight the way of the Lord…”
The Man of Peace, Opening New Work
Luke 10:1-18 …when you enter a town…”
Unreached People Groups
Matthew 18:12-13 - Parable of the Lost Sheep
Romans 15:20-23 “…my ambition to preach where Christ
was
not known”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
1. Start with prayer – know the mind of God and join Him in His
work
2. Everything is grounded in Scripture
3. Focus is on households, not individuals
4. Make Disciples, not converts
5. Teach obedience-based discipleship, not knowledge-based
6. Plan your work and work your plan – be intentional in
Evangelism and Church Planting
CRITICAL ELEMENT
7. Start with the Man of Peace or an existing relationship that will
permit a Discovery Bible Study or Witness
8. Form new believers into minimum practice groups that will
become churches
9. Develop a group DNA of urgent obedience that will reach out
to “ALL”
10. Develop a group DNA of rapidly reproducing disciples,
leaders, groups and churches
11. Training is done “On the Job”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
12. Keep all things reproducible by local leaders
13. Use unpaid local leaders to start new groups
14. Authority of Scripture and the Holy Spirit are all that is needed
to start
15. Do not require cultural suicide
16. Persecution is part of being a Christian
17. Discipleship and Training are continuous and primarily done
through mentoring
18. Model, Equip, Watch, and Leave
COUNTER INTUITIVE
1. Go slow at first to go fast later… focus on few to win may
2. Stay only where Jesus has prepared someone’s heart to hear
and obey
3. Do not focus on personal evangelism… focus on evangelizing
the whole community through families
4. Start with creation not Christ
5. Disciple people to conversion… not vice versa
6. A novice insider will produce more fruit than a highly trained
outsider
COUNTER INTUITIVE
7. Prepare to spend a long time making strong disciples, but
anticipate miracle accelerations
8. The best time for a church to plant a new church is when it is
brand new
9. Focus on discipling ordinary people not developing
”Professional” Christians
10. Expect the hardest places to yield the greatest result
11. Small for-profit project often yield much higher long term
access to resistant areas than free services
9. Train,
Coach,
Mentor,
watch and
Leave
1. Identify
Community
2. Pray for
Community
8. Identify
Natural Local
Leader(S)
Baptize, believing
families, Plant a
Church
3. Do
Community
Profile
/People group
7. Share Testimony &
Stories.
Start Discovery Bible
study
6. Create
Relationship
Through
service
4. Send Spies
5. Identify
Person/
Family of
Peace
CHURCH GROWTH TYPES
People are inspired
and saved
Elephant Type Church
•Big
• Lots of Programs
• Holy Atmosphere (“church-like”)
・Stained glass
・Choir
・Good preaching
Slow to Multiply
•Fertile four time a year
•One baby per pregnancy (22 month gestation period)
•Sexual Maturity … 18 Years
Indispensable
Need to grow
One Pair of Elephants
One Pair of Elephants
…The family grows from 2 to 3
Each
5,500 kg
Total
16,500 kg
Rabbit Type Church
•Small Group Oriented
•Scripture is Primary Source of all Teaching
Rabbits are small,
Multiply Rapidly
Rabbits
• Practically continuously fertile
• Average of 7 babies per pregnancy
(1 month gestation period)
• Sexual Maturity… 4 months
… 3 years… Two Rabbits
In
become…
Each
1 kg
Total
476,000,000
kg
476 Million
SPECK
S – Is there a Sin to avoid or confess?
P – Is there a promise, a prayer, or praise in this
passage?
E – Is there an example to follow (or not follow)?
C – Is there a command to obey?
K – Is there knowledge that I need to retain?
What are we going to do with what we have learned
TODAY?
Text
John 3:16-17
What do you
understand?
How can you
Obey?
How can you
teach others to
Obey?
John 3:16 -17
"For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world
through him.
Slide 27
By
Pastor Shodankeh Johnson
INTRODUCTION
THE PRESENT SCENARIO
Encountering the World of Islam
1/5 of humanity bows to Islam’s Allah
20% of the world are Muslims
60% of the worlds poor are Muslim
80% of the world’s refugees are Muslim
GO TO
MATTHEW 28:16-20
People
who hate you
People who will want to kill you
Those we love and fear
People who don’t love you
People who are different from you
Go refers to change of heart rather than
just moving
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT CHURCH PLANTING
You will not find “Church Planting Movements”
mentioned anywhere in the Bible. Yet, the first
century world was swirling with new converts and
multiplying indigenous churches planting
churches which are Church Planting Movements.
Let’s take a look at the characteristics of Church
Planting Movements and see what the Bible has
to say about them.
Abundant Gospel Sowing
2 Corinthians 9:6
“…whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
1 Thessalonians 1:8
“The Lord’s message rang out from you…”
All Peoples Will Be Reached
Psalms 67 “Let all the peoples praise you.”
Matthew 24:3, 14 “…and this gospel shall be preached to all
peoples.”
Revelation 5:9 “..you purchased men for God from every tribe…”
Revelation 7:9 “…a multitude that no one could count, from every
nation…”
Revelation 15:4 “All nations will come and worship before you.”
Psalm 96 “Ascribe to the Lord, O families of nations…”
God Will Do It
Philippians 1:6 “He who began…will do it.”
1 Peter 4:11 “…do it with the strength God provides.”
God’s Word
Acts 17:11 “…examined the Scriptures every day to see if…”
HOUSE CHURCHES
Acts 5:42 “…from house to house…”
Acts 8:3 “Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to
house…”
Acts 12:12 “…the house of Mary…where many people had
gathered…”
Romans 16:5 “Greet also the church that meets at their house.”
1 Corinthians 16:19 “…the church that meets at their house.”
Colossians 4:15 “…the church in her house.”
Philemon 2 “…the church that meets in your home.”
Lay Leadership
Psalm 119:97-100 “I have more insight than my teachers…for I obey…”
Jeremiah 1:7 “Do not say, ‘I am only a child…’”
Luke 8:39 “…so the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus…”
Acts 4:13 “…they were unschooled, ordinary men.”
1 Corinthians 1:26 “…not many were wise by human standards…”
2 Corinthians 3:4-5 “Not that we are competent in ourselves…”
1 Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young.”
1 Peter 2:9-10 “…you are a royal priesthood…”
1 Peter 4:10-11 “Each one should use whatever gift he has…”
Indigenous Leadership
2
Model, Equip, Watch & Leave
Timothy 2:2 “…entrust to reliable men…”
Titus
1:5 “…appoint elders in every town…
Multiple Church Leaders
1 Corinthians 12:7 “Now to each one…the Spirit is given for the common
good.
1 Corinthians 14:26 “…everyone has a hymn, or a word…a revelation…’”
Ephesians 4:11-16 “…some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some…”
Oikos Evangelism
- Community Implications to Evangelism
Acts 16:15 “…she and the members of her household were baptized.”
Acts 16:31 “…you will be saved—you and your household.”
Paradigm Shift
Habakkuk 1:5 “…you would not believe even if you were
told.”
Matt. 9:17 “…new wineskins”
Romans 12:1 “Be not conformed to this world…”
Jonah 1-4 -The reluctant missionary
Persecution and Suffering
Matthew 10:17-25 “A student is not above his teacher.”
2 Corinthians 11:23-29 “I have known hunger and thirst.”
1 Peter 4:12-13 “Do not be surprised [that] you are
suffering.”
Revelation 6:9-11 “How long [until] you avenge our blood?”
Revelation 12:10-12 “He is filled with fury, he knows his
time
is short.”
PRAYER
Psalms 2:8 “…ask of me and I will give you the ends of
the earth.”
Luke 5:16 “…Jesus often went off to a lonely place and
prayed.”
Luke 6:12 “…Jesus…spent the night praying to God…”
RAPID SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL
Acts 2:47 “…the Lord added to their number daily
those…being saved.”
Acts 19:20 “In this way the word of the Lord spread widely
and grew in power.”
Rapid Assimilation of New Believers
Acts 2:41 “Those who accepted his message were
baptized…that day.”
Acts8:26-39 “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”
Acts 16:5 “…the churches…grew daily in numbers.”
Acts 18:5 “…grew daily in numbers.”
Remove Obstacles
Luke 3:4-6 “…make straight the way of the Lord…”
The Man of Peace, Opening New Work
Luke 10:1-18 …when you enter a town…”
Unreached People Groups
Matthew 18:12-13 - Parable of the Lost Sheep
Romans 15:20-23 “…my ambition to preach where Christ
was
not known”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
1. Start with prayer – know the mind of God and join Him in His
work
2. Everything is grounded in Scripture
3. Focus is on households, not individuals
4. Make Disciples, not converts
5. Teach obedience-based discipleship, not knowledge-based
6. Plan your work and work your plan – be intentional in
Evangelism and Church Planting
CRITICAL ELEMENT
7. Start with the Man of Peace or an existing relationship that will
permit a Discovery Bible Study or Witness
8. Form new believers into minimum practice groups that will
become churches
9. Develop a group DNA of urgent obedience that will reach out
to “ALL”
10. Develop a group DNA of rapidly reproducing disciples,
leaders, groups and churches
11. Training is done “On the Job”
CRITICAL ELEMENT
12. Keep all things reproducible by local leaders
13. Use unpaid local leaders to start new groups
14. Authority of Scripture and the Holy Spirit are all that is needed
to start
15. Do not require cultural suicide
16. Persecution is part of being a Christian
17. Discipleship and Training are continuous and primarily done
through mentoring
18. Model, Equip, Watch, and Leave
COUNTER INTUITIVE
1. Go slow at first to go fast later… focus on few to win may
2. Stay only where Jesus has prepared someone’s heart to hear
and obey
3. Do not focus on personal evangelism… focus on evangelizing
the whole community through families
4. Start with creation not Christ
5. Disciple people to conversion… not vice versa
6. A novice insider will produce more fruit than a highly trained
outsider
COUNTER INTUITIVE
7. Prepare to spend a long time making strong disciples, but
anticipate miracle accelerations
8. The best time for a church to plant a new church is when it is
brand new
9. Focus on discipling ordinary people not developing
”Professional” Christians
10. Expect the hardest places to yield the greatest result
11. Small for-profit project often yield much higher long term
access to resistant areas than free services
9. Train,
Coach,
Mentor,
watch and
Leave
1. Identify
Community
2. Pray for
Community
8. Identify
Natural Local
Leader(S)
Baptize, believing
families, Plant a
Church
3. Do
Community
Profile
/People group
7. Share Testimony &
Stories.
Start Discovery Bible
study
6. Create
Relationship
Through
service
4. Send Spies
5. Identify
Person/
Family of
Peace
CHURCH GROWTH TYPES
People are inspired
and saved
Elephant Type Church
•Big
• Lots of Programs
• Holy Atmosphere (“church-like”)
・Stained glass
・Choir
・Good preaching
Slow to Multiply
•Fertile four time a year
•One baby per pregnancy (22 month gestation period)
•Sexual Maturity … 18 Years
Indispensable
Need to grow
One Pair of Elephants
One Pair of Elephants
…The family grows from 2 to 3
Each
5,500 kg
Total
16,500 kg
Rabbit Type Church
•Small Group Oriented
•Scripture is Primary Source of all Teaching
Rabbits are small,
Multiply Rapidly
Rabbits
• Practically continuously fertile
• Average of 7 babies per pregnancy
(1 month gestation period)
• Sexual Maturity… 4 months
… 3 years… Two Rabbits
In
become…
Each
1 kg
Total
476,000,000
kg
476 Million
SPECK
S – Is there a Sin to avoid or confess?
P – Is there a promise, a prayer, or praise in this
passage?
E – Is there an example to follow (or not follow)?
C – Is there a command to obey?
K – Is there knowledge that I need to retain?
What are we going to do with what we have learned
TODAY?
Text
John 3:16-17
What do you
understand?
How can you
Obey?
How can you
teach others to
Obey?
John 3:16 -17
"For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world
through him.